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Global distribution of observed climate change impacts

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The scarcity of robust scientific evidence supporting the attribution of observed impacts to climate change in some vulnerable regions does not indicate that no such impacts have occurred.

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Figure 1: Observed impacts of climate change.
Figure 2: Revised schematic of the observed impacts of climate change.

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Hansen, G., Cramer, W. Global distribution of observed climate change impacts. Nature Clim Change 5, 182–185 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2529

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