Study: Warmer World Will Produce Fewer Clouds

With rising global carbon emissions, the planet will heat up and cloud cover will dissipate, according to a new study. The concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has climbed 40 percent over the last century. And, the new study reports, in response to the release of CO2 emissions, from the burning of fossil fuels in power plants, cars and buildings, the Earth will continue to warm to dangerous levels. Steven Sherwood, a climate scientist at Australia's...

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