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Every cloud has an invisible halo

Unseen particles may confuse climate models.

Clouds are bigger than they look, according to new measurements by atmospheric scientists in Israel and the United States. They say that clouds are surrounded by a ‘twilight zone’ of diffuse particles, invisible to the naked eye, extending for tens of kilometres around the cloud’s visible portion.

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Posted by Mike Hopkin on April 24, 2007 05:57 PM |

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A halo of this nature should affect skylight polarization. How come this technique has not detected the halos?

Pls reply to r_da@comcast.net .

Posted by: H. Shamir | April 24, 2007 06:32 PM

And yet we are to believe these High Priests of Global Warming? Time to alter the facts to fit the theory...

Posted by: Jon Carry | April 24, 2007 08:46 PM

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