Helen McGregor studies the climate of the past to better understand present‐day climate, particularly tropical climate and ocean‐atmosphere processes such as El Niño. This research improves our ability to forecast climate change and addresses key questions on the origins of natural climate variations.
The Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised
Aug 26, 2016 08:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, no one would have thought that their burning of fossil fuels would have an almost immediate effect on the climate. But our new study, published today in Nature, reveals that...
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