Trees are much better at creating clouds and cooling the climate than we thought
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 06:01
in Physics & Chemistry
The pre-industrial atmosphere contained more particles, and so brighter clouds, than we previously thought. This is the latest finding of the CLOUD experiment, a collaboration between around 80 scientists at the CERN particle physics lab near Geneva. It changes our understanding of what was in the atmosphere before humans began adding pollution – and what it might be like again in the future.