Short episodes of warming and cooling occurred throughout the last glaciation. An innovative modelling study indicates that ocean-circulation changes produced much of the causative variation in greenhouse gases.
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Stocker, T., Schilt, A. Greenhouse-gas fingerprints. Nature 456, 331–333 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456331a
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