Comments on: Computer Cloud Illusions

By: Landon

Landon — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:11:19 +0000

I find the internet thing a bit funny, but I believe that a few of you may be forgetting that climate change is in geological time, it's not going to happen instantly.

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:54:45 +0000

You can thank cloud computing for this blog denouncing cloud computing.

By: Kendall

Kendall — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:39:41 +0000

1998 was one of the warmest years of the century. Since then the temperature has stayed about the same or slightly decreased which means we are in a cooling period but since we started from a high temperature it still results a warm decade.

By: Jeff Grant

Jeff Grant — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:50:12 +0000

OK, if the sun activity is now at a low ebb, how can the earth average temperature be so high? I am mystified when some scientists are saying we are in a 'cooling' period, while others are saying that the last decade is "the warmest on record". What? I have been following this for a while now, and I truly believe the scientists don't understand the fundamentals of the earth weather system. Go back to square one and start over. This time, please get it right. The answer does not rest with one variable (CO2?), but I am sure is a very complex web of interracting variables, some of which we are not even aware exist.

By: Don Vandervelde

Don Vandervelde — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:09:58 +0000

As a young research chemist in the 50s, when ionizing radiation was still a cool subject, for fun, I constructed a cosmic radiation detecting cloud chamber by supercooling alcohol vapor in a jar with dry ice. Sure enuf, my radium-glowing watch radiation then produced visible cloud streak tracks of condensed alcohol. Little did I know it modeled the effect of the sun's activity on earth's climate. The activity of the sun shields the earth from cooling cloud-producing cosmic rays, thus warming our climate, which precisely varies with the sun's activity. The sun is now unusually inactive producing clouds and our current cool weather, which has nothing to do with CO2. Cheers