On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 20:52:47 +0100
"Anne B" wrote:

What the reviewer writes before the phrase I quoted is that
the
eruption is the greatest "of the past 10,000 years." I guess
he thinks
"any before it" is limited by the previous statement.

Fairy nuff. Only you didn't include that bit at first


Mainly because I hadn't seen it1 ;-) My eyes - all one-and-a-half of
them - were attracted to what I saw as a controversial statement and
skipped the possible excuse for the reviewer.

Any road up, tomorrow I'll have have a closer look at the temperatures
over the period in question.

--
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.