April 6, 2025

30 thoughts on “Clouds and climate change | The Royal Society

  1. #467 "The famous Apollo One Earth photo and today's GOES satellite show essentially no change in cloud cover for 50 years. Multi-spectral satellite imaging gives 20x more data on clouds, but does nothing to explain obviously googleplex multivariate Chaos. AI will not help. It's a scraping tool, not a math bot or physics bot. So we have decades of Fourth Revelation Evangelicalism leading to Second Dark Ages feudalism, because Al Gore monetized Climate Jebeesus."

  2. "cloud" sounds simple and boring. Atmospheric water currents showcases the complexity and intricacy of this system more to me. ITs insane how much water is in the atmosphere above us, a chance to find joy by just looking up more often

  3. Thank you, I enjoy clouds to on occasion to predict what is to come tomorrow. Used to do a lot of fishing off my boat & clouds would tell me what I might expect the water on the gulf would be. Today I still use them in a way for the new place I live. The clouds have changed, they reflect the changes at hand. I also lived on the east end for a little over a year ago at the old king George Hospital.

  4. Thank You for your teachings. Have always liked clouds for fishing reasons. Long ago I used them to predict the weather of tomorrow to know what the sea water would bring. Today I use them to know when we can do outdoor activities. Used to live at the old King George Hospital, I think of these memories at times and would like to come back to London for a visit.

  5. My understanding is that water vapor is the most important and voluminous GHG, 1 trillion tons of which are evaporated into the atmosphere daily, although it only remains for 10-14 days before returning to the earth's surface. It then enters into a positive feedback loop with other GHGs that are much long lasting and both increase global heating. MIT and Yale have good articles on this. Amazing video! Thank you!

  6. As long as the climate movement (the domain of the Left) continues to embrace depravation as a solution nobody will listen. It's a myopic approach. The modern world is what keeps you safe. Safe from climate, safe from everything. The modern world was created by inexpensive reliable energy.

  7. the Earth is currently in a major ice age
    99% of the last 245 million years were warmer than today
    we need global warming
    it would be good for life
    we need more CO₂ in the atmosphere
    CO₂ is a nutrient, necessary for photosynthesis
    6H₂O + 6CO₂ => C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂

  8. After watching a perfectly clear Colorado sky this morning, turn to "clouds" within hours was depressing. The chemtrails started around 6:30am, and now 10 hours later it's a patchwork of persistent contrails. There ARE contrails, but the chemtrails being used to slow global warming are killing all life with the heavy metals and toxic chemicals (see the IPCC 2015 Paris Agreement, Solar Radiation Management). Contrails dissipate within seconds, as per physics, chemicals last for decades.

  9. I have a feeling someone is selling low level cloud seeding technology and we just watched a 7 minute commercial. (Not that I’m against a little geo engineering and other proactive ideas)

  10. Wtaf are you even on about?? Cloud seeding is done to enhance precipitation, suppress hail, dissipate fog, or reduce lightning. Not to make reflective clouds. Informing people that the trails jets leave across our skies is 'cloud seeding' is, at the very least – inaccurate. This is total disinformation promoting confusion. Shame on you!

  11. After more online research, I now realize that clouds are the result of water vapor cooling (n.b., giving up heat energy into the higher atmosphere and outer space) and condensing, then these clouds reflect solar radiation ( the albedo effect) back into space, but heat-up (see the IR map in the video) and trap waste heat, along with the blanket of GHGs, on the surface. CO2 has a 20 times greater capacity to trap and hold heat, so is much less able to transfer surface waste heat into outer space, but water vapor is 10-14 times heavier in the atmosphere, so CO2/GHGs are twice as heat retaining for the surface, where temps are rising 0.2 degC annually, or 1 degC every 5 yrs. Our dear Mother Earth's AC is working overtime but still can't prevent the thermal climate collapse we're in the midst of.

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