This data is critical in understanding the true sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. Global warming causes climatic oscillation and bad weather. In the last 4 decades, the EEI has gone up exponentially worldwide. In the U.S. the EEI for the lower 48 states increased 60 times since 1960. These instabilities and oscillations are monitored by GWIC with scientists and governments worldwide.
Clouds play a major role in feedback mechanisms to stabilize the world's climate.
Cloud formation processes also play a major role in the alteration of precipitation patterns and in the creation of floods. Our currently incomplete understanding of the cloud effects on global warming improves as new models are validated and new data become available. The oceans provide the largest heat absorbing body in stabilizing the climatic system. Under large scale atmospheric heat input, the ocean saturates its seasonal heat dissipation capacity and abnormal currents may form. These are all part of the feedback system which we understand partially, but the economic impacts of such climatic irregularities and extremes which are much less understood can be severe.