Brian Small...Not all clouds are such good sunshades. Wispy high clouds are poor reflectors of sunlight but they are very effective traps for heat coming up from below, so their net effect is to aid and abet global warming.
Cloud formation processes often take place on a localised scale. That means their detailed study involves much higher-resolution modelling than the larger-scale global climate models. Fourteen years on, since Ken Gregory of the dubiously-named Big Oil part-funded Canadian group, 'Friends of Science', opined on the matter (see myth box), big advances have been made in such modelling. Today, we far better understand the net effects of clouds in Earth's changing climate system. Confidence is now growing that changes to clouds are likely to amplify, rather than offset, human-caused global warming in the future. https://skepticalscience.com/clouds-negative-feedback-basic.htm?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks
#温暖化 #気候科学 #雲 #Clouds #ClimateScience
Cloud formation processes often take place on a localised scale. That means their detailed study involves much higher-resolution modelling than the larger-scale global climate models. Fourteen years on, since Ken Gregory of the dubiously-named Big Oil part-funded Canadian group, 'Friends of Science', opined on the matter (see myth box), big advances have been made in such modelling. Today, we far better understand the net effects of clouds in Earth's changing climate system. Confidence is now growing that changes to clouds are likely to amplify, rather than offset, human-caused global warming in the future. https://skepticalscience.com/clouds-negative-feedback-basic.htm?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks
#温暖化 #気候科学 #雲 #Clouds #ClimateScience
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