Real clouds may moderate global warming by negative feedback, or may work the other way. Comparison between observations and predictions suggests that clouds are cooling influences outside the tropics.
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Maddox, J. Clouds and global warming. Nature 347, 329 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/347329a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/347329a0