Climate change: the effect of DMS emissions

Peter S. Liss; James E. Lovelock

doi:10.1071/EN07072

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Climate change: the effect of DMS emissions

Peter S. Liss ^A ^C and James E. Lovelock ^B

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^A School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.

^B Green College, Oxford University, Oxford, OX2 6HG, UK.

^C Corresponding author. Email: p.liss@uea.ac.uk

Environmental Chemistry 4(6) 377-378 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN07072
Submitted: 20 September 2007 Accepted: 12 November 2007 Published: 6 December 2007

Environmental context. The idea that gases produced by plankton living in the oceans can affect cloudiness and regulate climate was given prominence by the promulgation more than 20 years ago by Charlson, Lovelock, Andreae and Warren of the CLAW hypothesis. In the intervening period it has been difficult to prove or disprove the idea, although much research has flowed from its enunciation. Perhaps its lasting legacy is in the way we view the planet and how research is conducted to try to understand how it operates.

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