Summer temperatures in Europe varied markedly over the past millennium. Climate models and palaeoclimate records indicate that changes in cloud cover related to storm tracks contributed to the variations — and may continue to do so in the future.
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Ortega, P. Clouding the warming. Nature Geosci 9, 567–568 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2758
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