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Breaks in trends

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Global temperature rise since industrialization has not been uniform. A statistical analysis suggests that past changes in the rate of warming can be directly attributed to human influences, from economic downturns to the regulations of the Montreal Protocol.

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Figure 1: Radiative forcing and global mean temperature since 1960.

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  1. Felix Pretis is at the Programme on Economic Modelling at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6ED, UK,

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  2. School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics, Myles Allen is at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK,

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Pretis, F., Allen, M. Breaks in trends. Nature Geosci 6, 992–993 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2015

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