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Recent years have seen heated discussions on global warming. The anthropogenic contribution to this process, the possible development and consequences of this situation, and the ocean’s role in climate formation on the planet are also questionable. An RAS Presidium meeting was dedicated to these problems.
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Original Russian Text © R.I. Nigmatulin, 2010, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 8, pp. 675–687.
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Nigmatulin, R.I. The ocean: Climate, resources, and natural disasters. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 80, 338–349 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331610040040
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