Cloud guesswork is hindering climate models, therefore relying heavily on their outputs to decide policies must be risky. A professor commented that we may "need a Manhattan Project level of new federal funding and interagency coordination to actually solve this problem." This can't be brushed aside as a minor issue.
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We hear a lot about how climate change will change the land, sea, and ice says Eurekalert.
But how will it affect clouds?
"Low clouds could dry up and shrink like the ice sheets," says Michael Pritchard, professor of Earth System science at UC Irvine. "Or they could thicken and become more reflective."
These two scenarios would result in very different future climates. And that, Pritchard says, is part of the problem.
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