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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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Climate change: Controversial 'cloud brightening' project proposed Moss Landing

2015-07-12 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mercury News: A team of elder Silicon Valley scientists is building an audacious device that might solve one of humanity's most profound dilemmas -- a "cloud whitener" designed to cool a warming planet. The men -- retired physicists, engineers, chemists and computer experts from some of Silicon Valley's top tech companies -- have been meeting four days a week for seven years in the Sunnyvale lab of the Marine Cloud Brightening Project to design a tool that creates perfectly suspended droplets of water resembling...

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