Absence Of Clouds Caused Pre-human Supergreenhouse Periods

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Fri, 04/11/2008 - 10:00

In a world without human-produced pollution, biological productivity controls cloud formation and may be the lever that caused supergreenhouse episodes during the Cetaceous and Eocene, according to paleoclimatologists.


 

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