Clouds and Climate

A study published in Nature Geoscience finds that low-lying clouds that currently cool the Earth could disappear.

[In] simulations, stratocumulus decks become unstable and break up into scattered clouds when [carbon dioxide] levels rise above 1,200 ppm. In addition to the warming from rising [carbon dioxide] levels, this instability triggers a surface warming of about 8 K globally and 10 K in the subtropics.