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The role of clouds in climate change

Peter Jacobs talks about one of the more complicated questions in climate science: how will clouds change in a changing climate? This is especially interesting as different types of clouds can have either a cooling or a warming effect, depending on whether they’re more effective at reflecting sunlight or trapping heat from the Earth’s surface.

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: The role of clouds in climate change, originally published in UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline
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