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Broken tropical thermostats

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During the early Pliocene epoch, tropical sea surface temperatures were thought to be similar to those of today, even though global mean temperatures were several degrees warmer. Temperature reconstructions now suggest that the Pliocene tropical warm pools were about two degrees warmer than those at present.

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Figure 1: Unreliable indicators.

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  1. Mark Pagani is in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, PO Box 208109, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA,

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Pagani, M. Broken tropical thermostats. Nature Geosci 7, 555–556 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2205

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