The Thermostat Hypothesis is that tropical clouds and
thunderstorms actively regulate the temperature of the earth.
This keeps the earth at a equilibrium temperature. The stability
of the earth’s temperature over time has been a long-standing
climatological puzzle. The globe has maintained a temperature of
± ~ 3% (including ice ages) for at least the last half a billion
years during which we can estimate the temperature. During the
Holocene, temperatures have not varied by ±1%. And during the
ice ages, the temperature was generally similarly stable as
well. ...some scientists have claimed that clouds have a
positive feedback. Because of this, the areas where there are
more clouds will end up warmer than areas with less clouds. This
positive feedback is seen as the reason that clouds and warmth
are correlated. I and others take the opposite view of that
correlation. I hold that the clouds are caused by the warmth,
not that the warmth is caused by the clouds. A thunderstorm can
do more than just reduce the amou