Climate and global change

Read the two attached academic journal articles. For each article:
1. Provide a brief summary, including the authors motivation(s) and results/conclusions.
2. Explain why, in your own opinion, the topic being studied is important.
3. Identify what result/conclusion was most shocking to you and why.
4. Identify which of the figures is most important and explain why.

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