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prestonhymas:

Why do we not discuss clouds more?

I mean look at that. That’s water.

Flying water.

FLYING

FUCKING

WATER

LIKE WHAT THE FUCK, WHY DO WE EVER STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS

WHAT IS THIS

HOW IS THIS EVEN

AND NOW THE FLYING WATER IS EATING A MOUNTAIN

GOD DAMN, WHAT

This is my favorite post on Tumblr.

Can we take a minute to appreciate how fucking awesome clouds are? And how we really don’t know all that much about them.

I mean, we know why the form the general shapes that they do (air masses moving over mountains and then continuing to do a sine wave over the condensation line form clouds like the penultimate picture and lots of convection forms towering cumulonimbus anvils), but we don’t really know how they affect… anything. 

Well sure, we know how they can insulate the earth (like how night in the desert is really really fucking cold if there aren’t any clouds), but we don’t know what they do overall. Like, the main argument against human caused global warming is “but we don’t know how much clouds are responsible!” (Do not get me started on politicians and global warming, I go for the science.) But really, we don’t know their effect on global climate, other than that they have one. Most of what we know about clouds we know from observation. And wickedly cool pictures, like these.

Cloud appreciation. Seriously.