A novel explanation for the long-term temperature record in Antarctic ice cores invokes local solar radiation as the driving agent. This proposal will prompt palaeoclimate scientists to pause and to go back to basics. See Letter p.91
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Fujita, K. Another Antarctic rhythm. Nature 471, 45–46 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471045a
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