The April issue of Weather has a review of a book about the Tambora
eruption. In the review, it says that the "eruption was bigger by at
least one order of magnitude than any before it." Should he have
added something on the lines of "except for the mystery eruption that
occurred only seven years earlier which may have been as big and had a
greater effect on the climate"?

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through
our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that
democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
- Isaac Asimov.