Posted on 03/24/2007 5:51:38 AM PDT by moneyrunner
"UV can only form clouds during daytime, therefore cooling."
Oh, so the cloud formation (caused in part by added UV) just goes away at night? No. It doesn't. And, unless it rains the concentrated holding of water vapor contributes to warming.
"The flip side is that UV induced clouds will be diffuse and uniform and diffuse clouds are more cooling than concentrated ones."
Spoeculation, not science. In fact, the scientific investigation of UV's assist in cloud formation is not cloud-specific, nor does it find that assistance to be cloud-specific for only certain types of clouds.
"Models" are only theories and so far, in climate science are less reliable than scientific inferences from real data alone and only real data and only after that data can establish true mechanisms and not the guesswork found in most ICCP models.
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