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Replying to E. Hawkins et al. Nature 511, 10.1038/nature13523 (2014)

In the accompanying Comment, Hawkins et al.1 suggest that our index2 of the projected timing of climate departure from recent variability is biased to occur too early and is given with overestimated confidence. We contest their assertions and maintain that our findings are conservative and remain unaltered in light of their analysis.

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Mora, C., Frazier, A., Longman, R. et al. Mora et al. reply. Nature 511, E5–E6 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13524

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