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Lorraine Daston: Climate Proxies, 7 May 2026

Climate by Proxy: A History of Scientific Reconstructions of the Past and the Future 
by Melissa Charenko.
Chicago, 248 pp., £28, November 2025, 978 0 226 84410 7
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... mattered, as did bouts of savage weather. But in the long run, climate and geography dominated. Melissa Charenko’s book tracks what happened to climate science when new technologies vastly extended its chronological reach. In the mid-19th century, long-held assumptions about climate stability began to totter as geological evidence of past ice ages ...

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