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A World Without Clouds

A World Without Clouds

SOURCE: Nature and Quanta Magazine DATE: February 25, 2019 SNIP: … A picture emerged of a brief, cataclysmic hot spell 56 million years ago, now known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). After heat-trapping carbon leaked into the sky from an unknown...
How clouds complicate global warming

How clouds complicate global warming

SOURCE: Cosmos Magazine DATE: July 2, 2018 SNIP: Clouds are wispy evanescent things, beloved of poets and daydreamers. They may also determine whether civilisation as we know it survives the 21st century. Depending on how clouds react to global warming, they could...
Scientists have beaten down the best climate denial argument

Scientists have beaten down the best climate denial argument

SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: December 18, 2017 SNIP: A new study published in Nature by Stanford scientists Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira found that so far, the global climate models that best simulate the Earth’s global energy imbalance tend to predict the most future...
Sunnier Skies Driving Greenland Surface Melt

Sunnier Skies Driving Greenland Surface Melt

SOURCE: Climate Central DATE: June 28, 2017 SNIP: In the past two decades, the Greenland ice sheet has become the biggest single contributor to rising sea levels, mostly from melt across its vast surface. That surface melt is, in turn, driven mostly by an uptick in...