    ‘Sentence 1: What range of years was the current wariming compared  to?         ‘Sentence 2: Criticism of the MBH9} reconstruction in a review paper,  which was quickly discredited in the Soon and Baliunas controversy,  ‘was. picked up by the Bush administration, and a Senate speech by  US Republican senator. James Inhofe alleged that “manmade global  warming is the greatest-tioax ever perpetrated on the American  people”.