European colonisation of the Americas might have caused global cooling, according to new research

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Alexander Koch
PhD candidate in Physical Geography, UCL
Chris Brierley
Associate Professor of Geography, UCL
Mark Maslin
Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
Simon Lewis
Professor of Global Change Science, University of Leeds and UCL

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