Changing Satellite Technology has resulted in Cloud Cover Measurement Errors

[sheeny]

This is from today's news @ nature:

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070219/full/070219-5.html

Al.

[Dujon]

Thanks, Al.

Why do scientists spend so many dollars researching the obvious? Any amateur astronomer (not those professional types perched in cloudless aeries) will tell the world that cloud is increasing.