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Climate change

Natural ups and downs

The effects of global warming over the coming decades will be modified by shorter-term climate variability. Finding ways to incorporate these variations will give us a better grip on what kind of climate change to expect.

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Wood, R. Natural ups and downs. Nature 453, 43–45 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453043a

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