It is these crystals, not aerosols, that act as condensation centres for further cloud formation.
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It has been proposed that reduced cosmic rays may lead to reduced cloud formation, causing global temperatures to rise.
Loving editorial attention was given to the face of Satan when he appeared in a cloud formation over New York.
The experiment on cloud formation also seems likely to undermine the particle physics laboratory's reputation for pursuing only blue skies research.
Just how much cosmic rays affect cloud formation has, however, remained elusive.
And thus the debate stood, until a Danish scientist named Henrik Svensmark suggested something outrageous that cosmic rays might seed cloud formation.
Encouraging cloud formation over the oceans by spraying seawater into the air would be roughly as helpful as pumping the stratosphere full of particles.
If either is right, Drs Close and Kirkby hope to be able to tell just how big an effect cosmic rays should have on cloud formation.
Another, which would oppose warming, is a rise in the quantity of sulphate-based aerosols, which encourage cloud formation and thus cool the air by reflecting sunlight back into space.
"Fearful of the outcome, King Angus led prayers for deliverance and was rewarded by seeing a cloud formation of a white Saltire - the diagonal cross against which Saint Andrew had been martyred - against a clear blue sky, " writes Mr Reid.
But if Svensmark was correct, it would mean that periods of high solar output should coincide with reduced cloud formation (due to reduced cosmic ray incidence), which in turn would have a warming effect on the Earth, since less sunlight would be reflected back into space by clouds.
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