Learn more about albedo – the simple measurement that has a vast impact on our planet and influences the climate ...

Tropical marine clouds contribute one-fifth of Earth’s albedo.But as oceans warm, these clouds are evaporating by about 1.5 percent per decade, taking their reflectivity with them.. Loss of ...

The Earth’s albedo has been declining since the 1970s, according to the report, due in part to the melting of light-colored snow and sea ice, exposing darker land and water which absorb more of ...

Decline in lower-altitude clouds reduces Earth's albedo. The albedo of the surface of the Earth has been in decline since the 1970s—due in part to the decline in Arctic snow and sea ice, which ...

Environment We finally have an explanation for 2023’s record-breaking temperatures. A decline in low-lying cloud cover means Earth is absorbing more solar radiation, which could explain 0.2°C ...

Nevertheless, the loss of snow and ice has caused the Earth's reflectivity, termed its albedo, to decline since the 1970s, enhancing the warming a bit. Vanishing clouds ...

The claim: 'Albedo effect' proves synthetic cover over Earth is causing global warming. An April 17 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) shows a video of a plane flying through a cloudy sky ...

“If a large part of the decline in albedo is indeed due to feedbacks between global warming and low clouds, as some climate models indicate, we should expect rather intense warming in the future ...