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Published online 21 February 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070219-5
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A cloudy view of cloudiness
Moving satellites may have caused falling measurements of cloud cover.
Satellite evidence that cloud levels are decreasing could just be pie in the sky. The trend might simply be a result of where the satellites are positioned.
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