On CLOUD nine [Important Experiment on Cloud Cover Effects of Sun's Cosmic Rays]

CERN: European Center for Nuclear Research ^ | Mon 08 Jun 2009 | CERN Staff

[Wonder Warthog]

"However, I still don’t see why it would not be important to have more precise measurements of how the process works under various conditions. Simply showing that there is a range of credible possibilities (if that proves to be the case) would undermine all the pretence that there are NO doubts about the processes of “climate change” and/or AGW."

It would definitely be important to have more precise data. To put it simply, anybody who says cosmic rays DON'T influence cloud formation is either complete ignorant, or lying (just as anybody who says that CO2 doesn't cause increased heat retention by the atmosphere, which is NOT the same as saying it causes warming). The question in both cases is, "how much". Modelling for the cosmic ray case is actually easier than for CO2 because (at least to the best of my knowledge), there are no feedback loops for cosmic rays, while there are MANY for CO2 warming. Once that cosmic ray ionizes a track in the atmosphere, nucleation WILL happen, and water/ice particles WILL form.