The biological world is responding rapidly to a changing climate, but attempts to attribute individual impacts to rising greenhouse gases are ill-advised.
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This paper was motivated by discussions and decisions surrounding the IPCC Expert Meeting on Detection and Attribution Related to Climate Change, held in Geneva, September 2009, and subsequently developed by a subset of members of the Marine Climate Change Impacts Working Group at the National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
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Parmesan, C., Duarte, C., Poloczanska, E. et al. Overstretching attribution. Nature Clim Change 1, 2–4 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1056
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