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The 20-year forecast

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Policy-makers need short-term climate predictions to develop strategies for coping with climate change over the typical two-decade planning horizon. Two new studies increase our confidence in these predictions.

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Figure 1: A warmer world. Shown here are projected changes in surface air temperature, relative to 1990–2000, for the decade 2020–30.

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Zwiers, F. The 20-year forecast. Nature 416, 690–691 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/416690a

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