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Nature 2023: Part II
This is a follow-on post to the previous summary of interesting work related to the temperatures in 2023/2024. I'll have another post with a quick summary of the AGU session on the topic that we are running on Tuesday Dec 10th, hopefully in the next couple of weeks. 6 Dec 2024: This is perhaps the most interesting of the papers so far that look holistically at the last couple of years of … Read Full Article about Nature 2023: Part II
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