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Climate Change Could Make These Super-Common Clouds Extinct, Which Would Scorch the Planet

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Live Science

Publication Date
2019-02-26

If humanity pumps enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, one of Earth's most important types of cloud could go extinct. And if the stratocumulus clouds — those puffy, low rolls of vapor that blanket much of the planet at any given moment — disappear, Earth's temperature could climb sharply and radically, to heights not predicted in current climate models.

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https://www.livescience.com/64852-clouds-extinct-climate-change.html