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Science, Vol.369, No.6509, 2020
Comment on "No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium"
Dee et al. (Reports, 27 March 2020, p. 1477) claimed that large volcanic eruptions do not produce a detectable El Nino response. However, they come to the wrong conclusion because they have ignored the fundamental climate response to large volcanic eruptions: Volcanic eruptions cool the surface, thus masking the relative El Nino warming.