Antarctic climate has undergone substantial shifts in past decades, but whether these changes are unusual in the long term is unclear. Ice-core records suggest that some aspects of this variability are unique to the past two millennia.
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van Ommen, T. Antarctic response. Nature Geosci 6, 334–335 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1812
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