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Moving up early detection

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Natural climate variability complicates the detection of anthropogenic climate change in the twenty-first century. Now, research shows that evidence of human influence first emerges from sea level rather than temperature rise.

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Yin, J. Moving up early detection. Nature Clim Change 4, 958–959 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2422

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