[caww]

....."experiment called Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets (CLOUD). The team fills a custom-built chamber with ultrapure air and chemicals believed to seed clouds: water vapour, sulphur dioxide, ozone and ammonia..... They then bombard the chamber with protons from the same accelerator that feeds the Large Hadron Collider,...... the world’s most powerful particle smasher. .....As the synthetic cosmic rays stream in, the group carefully samples the artificial atmosphere to see what effect the rays are having.

Would love to hear from some scientist on what exactly in layman's terms this means specifically.

[Spktyr]

They made a sealed box containing a replication of the earth’s atmosphere at the levels where clouds form. Then they hit this sample atmosphere with a replica of the sun’s output, then measured what happened. No carbon was involved.

They got measured warming in line with global warming. Ergo, the sun causes global warming, not carbon emissions.

[justa-hairyape]

They have proven that gamma rays entering a replicated Earth atmosphere can provide the energy required to create the nucleus for water condensation to occur. Basically turning water vapor (gas) into liquid water (clouds). So gamma rays must affect the density of clouds in the Earth atmosphere. So when the Earth receives more gamma rays, we have more clouds created. More clouds cool the Earth. Less clouds warm the Earth. The gamma rays are emitted by sources outside our solar system. The sun shields the Earth from gamma rays by the solar wind and its magnetic field. When the sun is less active, more gamma rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just posted this:

Nir Shaviv on the CLOUD experiment, worth a read