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Nature 407, 143-144 (14 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35025173
Global change: Plankton cooled a greenhouse
Birger Schmitz
Scientists who can perform laboratory experiments are lucky — a megalomaniac climatologist can only dream of putting an Earth-like planet in a giant test tube, pumping billions of tonnes of CO2 into its atmosphere, and registering the effects on life and climate. Fortunately, there are other approaches.
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