Less fog and warmer weather

2009/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Klima

Weather data show that in the last 30 years in Europe there have been much less clouds and mist than in previous times. From this data, some meteorologists of the Atomic Energy Commission have analyzed the influence of the decrease of these phenomena in the climate. The conclusion is that the scarcity of fog explains why Europe is warming faster than theoretical models calculated.

Fog reflects sunlight into space. When there was a lot of cloud in Europe, the sunlight came much less than now. Now the earth's surface is heated and more greenhouse radiation is emitted.

Therefore, only by the decrease of fog and mist, the greenhouse effect in Europe has increased; experts have analyzed data from 342 weather stations and confirmed that the trend is of the last 30 years.