Carbon dioxide is not the only air pollutant to cause warming and, in the race to combat global temperature rise, policymakers are now focusing on the other culprits, as Sonja van Renssen finds out.
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van Renssen, S. The greenhouse-gas gang. Nature Clim Change 2, 143–144 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1422
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