What If All The Clouds Disappeared Forever?

Clouds cover about 70% of the planet at any moment. But what if — poof — they all disappeared? While hurricane season would be over essentially forever, we'd have huge problems on our hands, like a dwindling supply of fresh water and a much, much hotter planet.

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What If All The Clouds Disappeared Forever?

[tellder]

For the second there thought that this was the new Kurzgesagt video

[muhammadanasurrehman]

Short Answer: There will be no silver lining, as there will be no dark cloud 😕

[LuckyJackson]

What if humanity came out of this pandemic more loving and caring for eachother and the planet?

do that one next please

[hadoukenhadouken]

Then Sephiroth would rule the world.


- Cloud must survive by all means!

[PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Than we would ask if there was clouds lol

[armin]

When I saw the title I was like:
What?

[zZeimos]

This man just told us what would happen if you were on Mars.

[siddarthachoudhury]

Hi science insider creators, I have one more question "What would happen if Earth rotate from north to south instead of East to West?

[abhishekghatge]

Wait that start seemed like Krutzgerzat. Ya you know what I'm talking about even if I spelled wrong

[merrymachiavelli]

The Fukushima reference is a bit bizarre....they can shut off reactors given enough notice. Presumably, if water was becoming scarce, that's what would happen.

[evgeniiaborodavka]

Ok, I’ll never complain about cloudy weather again

[kamalhasan]

it's 2 am at Night, I don't sleep, i need answers.

[goodtimesroll]

Way to completely rip off Kurzgesagt's art style, down to the way they draw clouds on earth.

[TheRealKitWalker]

There are videos asking people to reduce co2 emissions, but they don't tell them how and they don't ask the corporates and governments to stop cutting forests.

[SS-_.]

This video seemed more like the Chinese knock off of kurzgesagt. Also having no clouds is a impossibility. Your first sentence about the higher humidity itself is incomplete. Humidity will rise to the higher levels of the atmosphere and cool and condense to form new clouds. That's 5th grade science i learned. So for your scenario of clouds never forming will require earth to have no upper atmosphere. And if that happens then missing clouds are least of our problems.

[zzzjz]

3:20 or no less than 100% usage of solar panels during the day xd :)

[bingbongmcgee]

Got to love when professional science channels make hypothetical videos that defy the laws of physics

[hanihiya]

Thank you for this video! It's so beneficial!

[alphaapple]

For those who are familiar with the metric system:
At 1:33: "Today, the average American uses about 300 to 380 liters of water every day."

[dailydoseofmedicinee]

Clouds play a vital role in our climate by regulating the amount of solar energy that reaches the surface and the amount of the Earth's energy that is radiated back into space. The more energy that is trapped by the planet, the warmer our climate will grow. If less energy is collected, the climate will become cooler.👍