How influential are the various factors involved in curbing global warming? A study finds that the timing of emissions reduction has the largest impact on the probability of limiting temperature increases to 2 °C. See Letter p.79
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Hatfield-Dodds, S. All in the timing. Nature 493, 35–36 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/493035a
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