Our focus is to understand how high-level clouds, cirrus clouds, impact the climate system. Global warming is the climate change we're the most worried about. We are in the process of doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere since the Industrial Age began. The cause is the burning of fossil fuels, and it is significant because it is drastically changing the composition of the atmosphere.

Jay Mace

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Changes in the climate, such as global warming and an increase in UV radiation, have also been found to have a detrimental effect on frogs.

— Dr Les Minter

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We want to understand clouds on a microscopic scale so we can determine the impact on a massive scale.

Cirrus clouds are like a blanket. They trap heat in the system. That energy has to escape somehow. If enough energy is trapped and stored in the system, it can escape from the tropical ocean in the form of a hurricane, or in a big rain event like a 'Pineapple Express,' which is a deep flow of moisture in the tropics like we recently had hit the East Coast.

This study provides even stronger scientific evidence that global warming will result in catastrophic species loss across the planet.

— Jay Malcolm

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