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vixen9906/27/20251 replyview on HN

'actually combating climate change' is turning out to be more complicated than we might think. It appears that 'Contraction of the World's Storm-Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth's Sunlight Absorption'.

The authors' two key points:

"Satellite observations show that in the past 24 years the worlds storm cloud zones have been contracting at a rate of 1.5%–3% per decade

This contraction allows more solar radiation to reach the Earth's surface and constitutes the largest contribution to the observed 21st century trend of increased solar absorption"

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL11...


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breakyerself06/27/2025

What's complicated? Cloud formation turns out to be a positive feedback for global warming. We still need to stop dumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

Seems like just yesterday the perennially wrong Richard Lindzen was still claiming clouds would have a negative feedback reducing warming.