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Robustness of warming attribution

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Climate change can be robustly attributed to human activities using different datasets, despite uncertainties in the processing of observational data.

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Figure 1: Observed near surface temperature datasets.

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    In the version of this News & Views originally published, the time period for the temperature trend in the caption for Fig. 1 was incorrect; this has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions.

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  1. Robert Vautard and Pascal Yiou are in the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environment (LSCE, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ) and the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), 91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France,

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