Global Warming Causes Reduced Cloud Cover
Monday, July 27th, 2009Reduced cloud cover may sound like a good thing…more blue sunny skies. However clouds help protect us from a lot of the sun’s rays. This is why a recent study in the journal Science gives cause for worry when it claims that the clouds over the north east Pacific are dissipating as the ocean warms up.
Low level cloud cover is said to help cool the Earth by reflecting the sun’s rays away, therefore without this cloud cover it is possible that the Earth’s oceans could warm up. Scientists have as yet been unable to predict by how much this would affect global temperatures in the future, but it is yet another sign that governments around the world need to make significant policies to reduce carbon emissions.