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Figure 1: Radiative forcing due to CO2 and all WMGHGs.

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Myhre, G., Myhre, C., Forster, P. et al. Halfway to doubling of CO2 radiative forcing. Nature Geosci 10, 710–711 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3036

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