At times in the past, mobile ocean fronts in the subtropics have exercised an influence on the magnitude of climate change by decoupling temperature from levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Zahn, R. Beyond the CO2 connection. Nature 460, 335–336 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460335a
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