The rising trend in atmospheric concentrations of methane over the past 5,000 years has been attributed to human agency. A modelling study, of a power that has only now become possible, points to another cause. See Letter p.82
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Wolff, E. Methane and monsoons. Nature 470, 49–50 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/470049a
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