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A tale of two hemispheres

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A reconstruction of temperature from proxy records shows that the rise in global mean temperature closely resembled, but slightly lagged, the rise in carbon dioxide concentration during the last period of deglaciation. See Article p.49

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Wolff, E. A tale of two hemispheres. Nature 484, 41–42 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/484041a

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