What would happen to earth if all the clouds disappeared
Water shortages also spell trouble for power plants that rely on heating fresh water. Without clouds to reflect light from the sun, global temperatures would spike. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: From thin and wispy to big and puffy, clouds cover about 70% of the planet at any given moment. But what if, in the next minute, poof, they all disappeared? That instant might shock onlooking astronauts on the space station. But someone who is, say, hiking in the desert wouldn't know right away that things on Earth were about to get really bad. Within a few days, though, the fi...