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They may look comfy to sit on but you’d plummet through and hit the ground. Sam Schooler/Unsplash

What would it feel like to touch a cloud?

Katja Friedrich, University of Colorado Boulder

You might have already felt what it would be like inside a cloud made of condensed water vapor.
Sometimes air goes up past the condensation level then falls back below the condensation level, then up, then below, again and again. This creates clouds that are stripy, often with lines between the clouds. Robert Lawry/Author provided

Curious Kids: where do clouds come from and why do they have different shapes?

Robert Lawry, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Clouds formed by rising warm air currents are called ‘convection clouds’. Because of all the rising air coming up, these clouds can be bumpy on top, sometimes looking like cotton wool or cauliflower.
Solar radiation management involves spraying tiny reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect away some of the energy from the sun Shutterstock

Blocking out the sun to reduce global warming - an idea still in the making

Asfawossen Asrat, Addis Ababa University and Andy Parker, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam

Solar radiation management might be able to reduce some of the risks of global warming while countries get their emissions under control.

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  1. Clouds
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  4. Global warming
  5. Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)
  6. Respiratory illness
  7. Snow
  8. Water cycle
  9. Weather

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