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Published online 2 December 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news991202-11
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An ocean switch for global cooling
The average temperature of the Earth can change dramatically over just a few decades. One of the most striking variations of this sort happened about 12,000 years ago, when the planet was emerging from the last ice age.
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