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Climate models underestimate global warming by exaggerating cloud brightening
2016-04-08 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Yale University have found that climate models are aggressively making clouds "brighter" as the planet warms. This may be causing models to underestimate how much global warming will occur due to increasing carbon dioxide. The research appears in the April 8 edition of Science. As the atmosphere warms, clouds become increasingly composed of liquid rather than ice, making them brighter. Because liquid clouds reflect more sunlight back to...
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