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This news has been released in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and is by Prof. Davies and Matthew Molloy from the University of Auckland. They analyzed measurements from the Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer which is part of Terra Satellite; This instrument has been collecting data from clouds around the Earth since more than a decade. Davies and Molloy found out that the average cloud altitude decreased of 1% over the last decade (30 to 40 meters). Of course the record is too short…See More

This news has been released in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and is by Prof. Davies and Matthew Molloy from the University of Auckland. They analyzed measurements from the Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer which is part of Terra Satellite; This instrument has been collecting data from clouds around the Earth since more than a decade. Davies and Molloy found out that the average cloud altitude decreased of 1% over the last decade (30 to 40 meters). Of course the record is too short…See More

News published in Science Daily (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220133542.htm), from the PhD thesis of Kent Salo (the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany).Many of the particles in the atmosphere are produced by the natural world, and it is possible that plants have in recent decades reduced the effects of the greenhouse gases to which human activity has given rise. One consequence of…See More