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Tropical ocean key to global warming ‘hiatus’ 

Surface cooling in equatorial Pacific drives decade-long pause in global temperature rise.

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Tollefson, J. Tropical ocean key to global warming ‘hiatus’ . Nature (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2013.13620

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