It is traditional, as the year draws to a close, to try to predict what the future holds in store. It is less common to ask, as Caldeira and Kasting do in this issue, “how much future?” .
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Volk, T. When climate and life finally devolve. Nature 360, 707 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/360707a0
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