Earth gets over 170,000 terawatts of solar energy every day—10,000 times more than humanity uses. Losing just a fraction of our cloud cover means a massive, invisible throttle is coming off the climate system. If this trend holds, we’re not just warming—we’re stepping on the gas.
Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming
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#14Interesting, the area I live in is expected to get more rain as climate change gets worse. So I would think we would have more cloud cover. But the article is about "reflective clouds". As I look out my window, I see dark clouds right now as opposed to white fluffy clouds. Will need to note the colors as time goes on for my fully non-scientific surveys :)
Clouds are all the same color. The darkness we see is the shadows from other clouds.
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#15How large a scale and with how many countries participating would cloud seeding be able to reverse these effects? Last I remember it was only a few countries in Asia that were attempting anything of the sort.
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I think it’s global warming when it’s warming, climate change when things are different, and atmospheric stagnation where things haven’t changed.
Yes, but that unfortunate choice of labeling is what allows those who are less scientifically intelligent to say things to all their friends like, “Look at all this snow, ‘global warming’ right!” As if that is some sort of slam dunk against a “climate agenda”. Even when the trend is for worsening storm seasons, more and more wild temperature swings, and the increasing amount of land burned by wildfires, there are plenty who will still just claim it is “bad luck” and a natural process because “we don’t have weather data to go back millions of years”. A lot of that response was the direct result of the choice to call it “global warming” instead of the more accepted (at the time) “climate change”, which is what I think they were pointing out.
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You really think we can unite earth to do something about it? Did u witness the world wide right wing shift? There are people still not believing climate change is real...
Not sure, do you know? Nobody here knows. But what's certain is OP commenter's comment was cheesy and annoying.
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#19Earth gets over 170,000 terawatts of solar energy every day—10,000 times more than humanity uses. Losing just a fraction of our cloud cover means a massive, invisible throttle is coming off the climate system. If this trend holds, we’re not just warming—we’re stepping on the gas.
terawatt is not an energy unit.
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You really think we can unite earth to do something about it? Did u witness the world wide right wing shift? There are people still not believing climate change is real...
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My brain turns off when someone says "leftist", tell us you're a conservative without telling us. The internet used to be nuanced, those were the days.