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[[Richard Lindzen]] wrote:

[[Richard Lindzen]] wrote:

:Cloud cover in [[climate model|model]]s is poorly treated and inaccurately predicted. Yet clouds reflect about seventy-five watts per square meter. Given that a doubling of [[carbon dioxide]] would change the [[surface heat flux]] by only two watts per square meter, it is evident that a small change in cloud cover can strongly affect the response to carbon dioxide. ... the effects of clouds in reflecting light and in enhancing the [[greenhouse effect]] are roughly in balance. [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html]

:Cloud cover in [[climate model|model]]s is poorly treated and inaccurately predicted. Yet clouds reflect about seventy-five watts per square meter. Given that a doubling of [[carbon dioxide]] would change the [[surface heat flux]] by only two watts per square meter, it is evident that a small change in cloud cover can strongly affect the response to carbon dioxide. ... the effects of clouds in reflecting light and in enhancing the [[greenhouse effect]] are roughly in balance. [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html]