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Pacemakers of warming

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In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Earth warmed rapidly. A coral-based climate proxy record of westerly winds over the equatorial Pacific suggests that wind strength and warming rate were linked, as they are today.

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Figure 1: Variable warming rates.

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  1. Stefan Brönnimann is at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research and Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland,

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Brönnimann, S. Pacemakers of warming. Nature Geosci 8, 87–89 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2330

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