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A cloudy view of cloudiness

Moving satellites may have caused falling measurements of cloud cover.

Satellite evidence that cloud levels are decreasing could just be pie in the sky. The trend might simply be a result of where the satellites are positioned.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on February 21, 2007 01:00 AM |

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Admit it, noone knows precisely what the net effect of clouds is - do they reflect more heat than they hold in? Do increased clouds mean more precipitation? Do decreased clouds mean more evaporation which means more precipitation? Or can all of the above be true depending on location and season?

Those who claim to measure warming still have the error well down into the noise of measurment error. There is absolutely no reason to believe the increasingly outlandish claims of the Global Warming priesthood who proclaim loudly over and over and over, "The End Is Near! Repent!"

The Earth has been through many warming and cooling cycles ever since it began - the climate is always changing at some rate or another.

Posted by: Not Chicken Little | February 21, 2007 07:46 PM

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