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Cloud confusion vexes global warming predictions...

Translation:

We don't know what the hell we are talking about, our computer models are a joke, but we are sure that global warming is really, really bad... thrust us.

P.S. Please send us more money for research grants so that we no not have to find real jobs.

Heh. Tho more seriously, they would have known about the problem all along and made their models conservative.

Still, why not focus on more serious things like cheap energy, disease, war, and that poverty thing.

@ Hillbilly:

Observations indicate that the cloud feedback is positive, and therefore, will amplify warming caused by CO2.
http://geotest.tamu.edu/userfiles/216/dessler10b.pdf

Also, these observations are in agreement with global climate models.

QTthecamel;
I clicked on your link and got a big black screen. Do you have another link you could post to the same thing, or fix the link so it works?

Thanks,

Amaranth

Dr Svensmark's research has triggered a lot of attention to the sun's role in our climate. NASA: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-nasa-satellite-aerosols-effect-climate.html

This from articlesbase.com:
Contrary to expectations, the net amount of solar energy reaching earth's troposphere — the lowest part of the atmosphere — seems to have been larger in 2007 than in 2004, despite the decline in solar activity over that period. The spectral changes seem to have altered the distribution of ozone molecules above the troposphere.

Read more: http://www.articlesbase.com/science-arti...l#ixzz1IIGqMOTp
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It may be that the upper atmosphere is 'holding' more water vapor in the form of high clouds and withholding it from the lower atmosphere.