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Nature 432, 962-963 (23 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/432962a; Published online 22 December 2004

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Climate change: The cloud conundrum

Joyce E. Penner1

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One of the great uncertainties in projecting global warming is accounting for the effects of small particles in Earth's atmosphere. Progress is nonetheless being made with this fiendishly complex problem.

Generally accepted climate projections for the year 2100, compared with today, predict a global average temperature increase ranging from around 5.8 °C to a more benign, but still worrisome, 1.

  1. Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2143, USA.
    Email: penner@umich.edu

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