"Particulate pollution reflect incoming sunlight and make clouds brighter, " said research team-member Dr Paul Halloran from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre.

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Researchers at Britain's Hadley Centre, a leader in climate modelling, have used their analysis to show that sinks may not be as permanent as their proponents argue.

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Your group, together with the groups at the Hadley Centre, Yale, NOAA ARL and NOAA GFDL, deserve great credit for making significant progress on a difficult, time-consuming, yet important problem.

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Doug Smith and his colleagues at the Hadley Centre, in Exeter, England, are in the second camp and they seem to have stumbled on to what seems, in retrospect, a surprisingly obvious way of doing so.

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In a recent paper in Climate Dynamics, Mark Webb of Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Change and his colleagues reported that clouds account for 66% of the differences between members of one important group of models and for 85% of them in another group.

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For instance, the Hadley Centre for climate research in the UK, published research only this week suggesting that forests will speed up climate change in the future, as the soil will start to emit more greenhouse gases than the trees absorb as the temperature builds up.

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These findings have now been complemented by Dr Knight's project, which made use of climateprediction.net, a network of personal computers on which processing time is volunteered by members of the public, to compile 57, 000 different runs of a global-climate model developed at the Hadley Centre.

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