
The climate tipping points
The Documentary Podcast
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Clouds and Global Warming
Colin cole is a scientist of the us. Pacific northwest national laboratory who worked in a team building computer simulations of how clouds interact with a warming atmosphere. Clouds are very hard to model because the turbulence of a cloud involves scales of motion that are much, much, much smaller than can be represented in a climate model. He says climatologists have particularly focused on the ones covering the northern and southern sub tropics,. which lie roughly in line with the mediterranean and south africa.
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