Within that framework, the decade 2000-2009 was one of the warmest since modern record-keeping began, but global mean temperatures didn't breach the levels of the early Holocene.

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We are perhaps already a few tenths of a degree above the Holocene maximum, and the system seems to be in the early stages of rapid change.

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