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

Minority report

Myles Allen

It seemed such a good idea at the time. You may recall the film Minority Report, in which a futuristic society develops a way of detecting crimes before they are committed, so athletic black-clad operatives can crash in and stop the bad guys in the act.