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Aerosols and Atlantic aberrations

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A cutting-edge global climate model links atmospheric aerosol emissions to temperature variability in the North Atlantic Ocean, suggesting that human activity influences extreme weather events. See Letter p.228

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Figure 1: The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation.

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