The Arctic has warmed almost four times faster than the global average over the past four decades. This fourfold rate of warming is an extraordinary manifestation of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change.
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Rantanen, M. Natural variability boosts Arctic warming. Nat. Geosci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01458-6
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