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Clouds and global warming

Nature volume 347, page 329 (1990)Cite this article

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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