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Posted Wed May 2 2012: from New York Times:
Clouds' Effect on Climate Change Is Last Bastion for Dissenters http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1335917601
...polls say 97 percent of working climate scientists now see global warming as a serious risk. Yet in recent years, the climate change skeptics have seized on one last argument that cannot be so readily dismissed. Their theory is that clouds will save us. They acknowledge that the human release of greenhouse gases will cause the planet to warm. But they assert that clouds -- which can either warm or cool the earth, depending on the type and location -- will shift in such a way as to counter much of the expected temperature rise and preserve the equable climate on which civilization depends.
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'Doc Jim says:
I've always said climate skeptics have their heads in the clouds.

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