Identifying Robust Cloud Feedbacks in Observations and Models

Press Coverage

2021

• Study shows faster payoff for reaching net-zero by 2050 (February 2021, Minnesota Public Radio)

2020

• Worst- and Best-Case Scenarios for Warming Less Likely, Groundbreaking Study Finds (July 2020, Scientific American)

• Why Is Climate More Sensitive in the Latest Earth System Models? (March 2020, Eos)
• Latest Earth System Models predict more global warming than their predecessors. (March 2020, US-CLIVAR Research Highlight)
• Climate Change Predictions Have Suddenly Gone Catastrophic. This Is Why, (February 2020, Vice)
• Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming, (February 2020, PBS News Hour)
• Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why, (February 2020, Bloomberg)
• The latest generation of climate models is running hotter—here’s why (January 2020, arsTechnica)

2019

• New climate model evaluation method can help to predict more accurate future change (March 2019, LLNL News)
• A World Without Clouds (February 2019, Quanta Magazine)

2017

• The Cloud Conundrum (December 2017, Scientific American)
• How Do Clouds React to Regional Warming? (October 2017, Eos)
• Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change? (July 2017, TED Talk by Kate Marvel)

2016

• Study examines migration patterns of clouds (December 2016, ABC7 News)
• Clouds dampened warming since 1980s, study shows (October 2016, CarbonBrief)
• Recent pattern of cloud cover may have masked some global warming (October 2016, Ars Technica)
• Eliminating Uncertainty One Cloud at a Time (October 2016, Eos)
• Climate Change May Already Be Shifting Clouds Toward The Poles (July 2016, National Public Radio)

2015

• Models overestimate rainfall increases due to climate change, experts say (December 2015, ScienceDaily)
• Low-Altitude Clouds Play an Important Role in a Changing Climate (November 2015, Eos)

2014

• Cloud variations in current climate a guide to climate changes(December 2014, AGU)
• Climate Scientist Aims to Clear the Air on Clouds (April 2014, LLNL)
• Cloudy forecast: The biggest source of climate uncertainty is white and fluffy (March 2014, ScienceNews)
• The madding cloud: When forecasting the future, scientists’ blind spot is above them (January 2014, Grist)

2013

• Ozone hole might slightly warm planet (August 2013, AGU)
• Reconciling Two New Cloud Feedback Papers (February 2013, SkepticalScience)

2012

• Ocean clouds obscure warming’s fate, create ‘fundamental problem’ for models (November 2012, E&E News)

2011

• New tool clears the air on cloud simulations (October 2011, phys.org)
• Clouds confusion swirls at center of climate debate (September 2011, Live Science)