More background: both Russell Vose and @climateofgavin.bsky.social today in the NASA/NOAA temp call made passing mention to evidence that cloud cover has contracted over the past couple decades.
I believe that's a reference to this prelim work that Science covered out of AGU last month.
I believe that's a reference to this prelim work that Science covered out of AGU last month.
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Just note it's a complicated puzzle to determine what's the forcing and what's the feedbacks. It will somewhat depend on definitions.
Answers the energy imbalance question and possibly heat jump in 2023 and '24 which Gavin said was a mystery a year ago.