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Nature 427, 582-583 (12 February 2004) | doi:10.1038/427582a
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Climate change: The hot hand of history
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- Betsy Mason recently completed an internship in Nature's Washington DC office.
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We may not have known we were doing it, but humans have been changing the climate for thousands of years, a new theory suggests. Could our ancestors have saved us from an ice age? Betsy Mason investigates.
Less than four centuries ago, life was colder in the northern latitudes than it is today. Alpine glaciers advanced, frost killed ancient orange groves in China, and Londoners held winter festivals on the frozen Thames.
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