clouds
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Your Shower Thoughts, Answered: Where Does Wind Actually Come From?
The short answer is wind happens because the Sun heats some parts of the planet more than others, and this uneven heating starts a wind going. That means wind energy is really a kind of solar energy! All winds are made the same way Wind systems on Earth vary from the global-scale trade winds and…
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New Climate Models Show That Clouds Could Screw The Paris Agreement
Scientists’ latest climate models show that the world is going to warm even more than we previously thought.
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Four Things That Could Kill Us Before The Cloud Apocalypse Does
If you read the news on Monday, you may have heard people freaking out about how climate change is finally coming for the clouds. A study released in Nature Geoscience chronicles how stratocumulus clouds, those low hanging clouds that lend themselves well to daydreaming, could one day disappear if we keep emitting carbon. Their disappearance…
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Scientists Make Coldest Liquid Water Ever, And It’s Weirder Than They Imagined
You’re definitely familiar with water’s freezing point: 0C. But that isn’t the coldest water could be. “Supercooled” water is water that exists below that point. Scientists in a few labs lab have now made the coldest water yet.