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Review
. 2000 Sep 19;163(6):729-34.

Environment and health: 2. Global climate change and health

A Haines  1 , A J McMichael, P R Epstein
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Review

Environment and health: 2. Global climate change and health

A Haines et al. CMAJ. .
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Fig. 1: Mechanism of the greenhouse effect. Adapted from reference 2.
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Fig. 2: Changes in global surface air temperatures from 1860 to July 1999. Annual means (bars) and trends (line) relative to that at the end of the last century. Reprinted with permission from the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, UK Meteorological Office.2
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