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To: AFPhys; jonrick46
By the way, even cogitator has admitted that even a miniscule 1% change in the effect of cloud cover could account for the global temperature rise of the 20th century.

But there is no evidence supporting this mechanism as the cause of the increasing temperature. The main uncertainty is what will happen to cloud cover with further warming. No reputable climate scientist has indicated cloud cover increase as the likely cause of the currently observed warming. I was only addressing the magnitude of the uncertainty.

Try to keep clear what I do and don't say, please. Or ask me.

224 posted on 04/11/2007 2:18:48 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: cogitator

Is it possible that decrease in cloud cover causes increased temperatures because less solar radiation is reflected away from the surface.


226 posted on 04/11/2007 3:06:46 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: cogitator

Wrong: Solkani has just published (last 6 months or so) “surprise” data from a REAL EXPERIMENT (not a model) that show cosmics are much more efficatious in initiating cloud cover than previously believed. His group has secured mucho bucks to explore the mechanism at the next CERN particle accelerator experiment. I believe it will be named CLOUD.

Wrong again: YOU even “calculated” in a post to me how a 1% change could account for the global temperature increase.

Sorry I don’t have time to look these up further for you ... I’ve got to go do my taxes now... be back in a few days ... LOL.


259 posted on 04/12/2007 4:42:55 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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