Swimming sperm whales. Credit Patrick Dykstra Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don’t understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth

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The top left, top right, and bottom left panels show the high cloud fraction as a function of longitude and latitude for the PI, 1% PAL, and 0.1% PAL scenarios,

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