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Lessons from a distant monsoon

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The burden of global warming falls most heavily on the developing world. A connection forged between the Indian Ocean climate, Asian monsoons and drought in Indonesia makes for an especially bleak outlook for that nation.

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Figure 1: Indonesian summer.

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Figure 2: Abrupt changes in monsoon climate.

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