Summit Voice: Taking a close-up look at thunderclouds enabled researchers to identify a new factor in the global warming equation -- high altitude air pollution that spreads out the top of anvil-headed thunder clouds and traps more heat, especially at night. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear. To find out, researchers need to incorporate this new-found warming into global climate models. "Global climate models don`t see this effect because...
URL: http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/05/19/climate-study-says-pollution-makes-thunderstorms-bigger-and-stronger-and-theyre-trapping-more-atmospheric-heat/
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