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Humans did it

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Observed vegetation change in the Northern Hemisphere can, with a high degree of confidence, be attributed to human-caused global change.

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Buitenwerf, R. Humans did it. Nature Clim Change 6, 898–899 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3081

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