Do Aerosols Only Add to Global Warming? 2 Views - NYTimes.com
Yet there is a third factor, not widely recognized, said Natalie Mahowald, a climate researcher at Cornell University and author of the article in Science. Some artificial aerosols containing iron, nitrogen and phosphorus are fertilizers that settle on the planet and stimulate plant growth on land and phytoplankton in the ocean. Those plants take up more carbon dioxide and can thereby possibly mitigate global warming.
It is not the first time that Catch-22 questions have been raised about climate science and the atmosphere. Some people argue, for example, that eliminating coal-fired power as an energy source could have drawbacks because the pollutants emitted would no longer be there to block sunlight and slow warming.
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