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tomrod ◴[] No.43593114[source]
> the team has turned to a single satellite, NASA’s Terra, which has been monitoring the planet for nearly a quarter-century. Looking at the same cloud systems, the team found exactly the same trends, with cloud coverage falling by about 1.5% per decade, Tselioudis says. “It’s only now that the signal seems to be coming out of the noise.” Bjorn Stevens, a climate scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, says a couple percentage points may not sound important. “But if you calculate these trends, it’s massive,” he says. “This would indicate a cloud feedback that’s off the charts.”

Hurricanes and Cyclones will get worse. This is bad news for folks that wish to live near many coasts.

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1. dataviz1000 ◴[] No.43593322[source]
Including inland mountains 700km from the coast like in Vietnam and North Carolina which both got destroyed last year as tropical depressions dumped historical levels of rain.
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2. energy123 ◴[] No.43593685[source]
Why mountains in particular?
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3. dataviz1000 ◴[] No.43593740[source]
As the warm moist air is pushed upwards in mountains, on the windward side, the air will drop in temperature and will not be be able to hold the moisture dropping it as rain.