If increases in greenhouse gases act to produce more clouds, how would that change the earth's temperature?

Answer 1

It acts like a blanket. The big issue, and no one wants to talk about it, is sulfur dioxide. This is a green house gas and is produce when volcanoes blow their tops. When Mt St Helen's blew, it dumped millions of tons into the air. As one scientist said, " more than man has dumped in the air since the industrial revaluation".

So, what do we do, Put catalytic converters on volcanoes???
Dont think so. We are warming because we are coming out of an ice age. The earth is one degree warmer.

Simple question, Sitting in your house, can you tell the difference between 78 degrees and 79 degrees??

Didn't think so, neither can anyone else

Answer 2

Increased cloudiness is likely to cool the earth as it reflects incoming radiation from the sun. Also, large thunderstorms pump heat from near the ground up into the lower stratosphere where it escapes into space, also producing cooling of the earth. Clouds don't act like a blanket. Blankets trap air close to our bodies and our body heat warms it up. Clouds don't trap air close to the ground, nor do they reflect heat back to the ground. Water vapour which makes up clouds is not accounted for in climate models even though it is the major greenhouse gas. In fact little is known about how clouds affect global temperatures so predictions about future temperature trends are merely speculation.

Answer 3

I don't know about you guys but I learned in school that clouds also block out the sun which warms the ground... So if there is constant clover the Earth would be colder.


Take the erruption of a volcano.... All the ash block and reflects the sun's radiation. In the past this has caused very cold winters and cold summers.

Answer 4

It's like a cover that doesn't allow the Earth to release the received heating again into the atmosphere

Answer 5

Insulating blanket