Climategate 2.0: 1999 Briffa email: ‘I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched about 1000 years ago’
'I do not believe that global mean annual temperatures have simply cooled progressively over thousands of years as Mike [Mann] appears to and I contend that that there is strong evidence for major changes in climate over the Holocene (not Milankovich) that require explanation and that could represent part of the current or future background variability of our climate'
