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You're About to See an Incredibly Rare Cloud, and It's Proof the Climate Is Changing http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1433959185
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In a few weeks, you may get to see evidence the atmosphere is changing -- if you're lucky.
That's when noctilucent clouds, the world's highest, peak in number and show up in the night sky just after sunset as electric-blue swirls in the mesosphere, the coldest place on the planet... Changes in the clouds reflect "how we affect the atmosphere down here," Elsayed Talaat, AIM's program scientist, said by telephone from Washington. "If you increase the methane down below, you are going to increase the water vapor up above."
Carbon dioxide also may play a role, Randall said. The gas, which warms the lower atmosphere, "can actually cause the upper atmosphere to cool," she said.
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