[cruise_missile]

CERN: ‘Climate models will need to be substantially revised’

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/cern_cloud_cosmic_ray_first_results/

[e_castillo]

Read that the other day. Below is a segment of the CERN summary. "There are several important discoveries from CLOUD. Firstly, we have shown that the most likely nucleating vapours, sulphuric acid and ammonia, cannot account for nucleation that is observed in the lower atmosphere. The nucleation observed in the chamber occurs at only one‐tenth to one‐thousandth of the rate observed in the lower atmosphere. Based on the first results from CLOUD, it is clear that the treatment of aerosol formation in climate models will need to be substantially revised, since all models assume that nucleation is caused by these vapours and water alone."