That you're too, quite frankly, stupid to understand it ISN'T my fault!
That you’re too, quite frankly, stupid to understand it ISN’T my fault!
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Perspective does not explain why the base of distant clouds appear lower on the horizon compared with clouds that are closer. Let’s take cumulus clouds as an example. We can assume the the base of all the cumulus clouds in our field of view are at the same height because of similar atmospheric conditions (cloud condensation level).
Here we can see that perspective cannot account for how quickly the more distant clouds appear lower on the horizon. In fact, the curvature of the Earth causes the base of distant clouds to appear lower on the horizon, not perspective. This effect seems self-evident, maybe subtle to some, more obvious to others.
See cloud type 7:
https://www.weatherstationadvisor.com/types-of-clouds/