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Nature 439, 374-375 (26 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439374a; Published online 25 January 2006

Special Report The costs of global warming

Quirin Schiermeier

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Efforts to forecast how Earth's future climate will affect us must consider the economic growth of both rich and poor nations. But there are doubts over the theories being used, as Quirin Schiermeier explains.

Discussions of climate change tend to involve uncertainties, and most climate researchers have come to accept the inherent unknowns of their business. After all, the climate models they use to project the course of global warming are generally seen as the best that science can offer.

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