The paper’s key discoveries show that in the atmosphere, clouds and tiny particles called aerosols often mix in a “transition zone” rather than staying fully separate, as scientists once believed. This mixing zone shows up in roughly 1 out of every 10 satellite measurements of the air.
This means many climate models are oversimplified because they assume clouds and aerosols don’t overlap. To improve forecasts for weather and climate, models should account for this gradual mixing instead of a clear divide.
The study suggests improving models by adding new in-between categories for clouds and aerosols, or by viewing them on a sliding scale. This could lead to more accurate predictions about how sunlight and heat travel through the air.
Including these transition zone details in models would adjust how they calculate energy flows, by better showing the partly mixed nature of clouds and aerosols. This influences how light is absorbed, bounced, or released. Right now, models treat them as separate, which can lead to errors in estimating reflected sunlight (albedo) and heat escaping to space, causing inaccuracies in overall atmospheric energy measurements at the top of the atmosphere.
So in my view this paper could be either an indicator of:
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Another indicator of an ongoing stepping back from climate change scam narrative perhaps because the digital gulags are being implemented at pace globally (47 countries) and the climate crisis psyop is no longer so essential. Disengaging in an stealthy way may still be needed however.
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It is a genuine attempt to address the inadequacy of the main stream (IPCC) climate models. Having used and studied these models in a previous existence, it was already known 30 years ago that these blended and complex zones existed and also that low cloud cover wasn’t being taken into account within the main stream (IPCC) models at all.
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It is a “one-off” never to be repeated, but to be defunded and never heard of again, but useful as an “We knew that and told you so” for later use as a defence.
Ruiz de Morales, J., Calbó, J., González, J.A., Andersen, H., Cermak, J., Fuchs, J. and Sola, Y., 2026. Global Assessment of the Cloud-Aerosol Transition Zone Using CALIPSO. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 43(2), pp.321-335.