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Commentary


Nature Geoscience 1, 209 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo174

Minority report

Myles Allen1

  1. Myles Allen is at the University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK.
    e-mail: allen@atm.ox.ac.uk


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