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Climate models at their limit?

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Estimates of climate-change impacts will get less, rather than more, certain. But this should not excuse inaction, say Mark Maslin and Patrick Austin.

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  1. Mark Maslin and Patrick Austin are with the Environment Institute and Department of Geography, University College London, Pearson Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.,

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Maslin, M., Austin, P. Climate models at their limit?. Nature 486, 183–184 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/486183a

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