Do biologically produced aerosols really modulate climate?

Glenn E. Shaw

doi:10.1071/EN07073

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Do biologically produced aerosols really modulate climate?

Glenn E. Shaw ^A

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^A Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. Email: gshaw@gi.alaska.edu

Environmental Chemistry 4(6) 382-383 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN07073
Submitted: 4 October 2007 Accepted: 28 October 2007 Published: 6 December 2007

Environmental context. In 1983, the author proposed that global climate might be regulated with a machine that uses natural sulfur as its fuel. This climate regulation machine might operate several ways; one is by scattering light back to space from a haze that forms as a consequence of microscopic plant and animal life in the oceans. The idea has evolved, and continues to be pursued as a paradigm.

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