Climate models need revision: The Cosmic Ray cloud formation efffect proven

This is big, cosmic rays and cloud formation and volcanoes are major factors in determining our climate trends. People do factor into it, but people cannot account for half of the effects.

The Earth has been hotter and much colder than it is now so some natural process was likely to be a cause.

Climate models have always been know to be flawed, for example they failed at back predicting known historic climates, so this will help remove some of the pointless speculation based upon obviously flawed climate models.

CERN's 8,000 scientists have made an important contribution to climate physics, prompting climate models to be revised.

Svensmark, who is no longer involved with the CERN experiment, says he believes the solar-cosmic ray factor is just one of four factors in climate. The other three are: volcanoes, a "regime shift" that took place in 1977, and residual anthropogenic components.

When Dr Kirkby first described the theory in 1998, he suggested cosmic rays "will probably be able to account for somewhere between a half and the whole of the increase in the Earth's temperature that we have seen in the last century."

13 year old creates design to bbost solar output 20-50% over flat panels

Boosts 20% in Summer and amazingly enough 50% in Winter.

Mimicking how trees do it, which is a very clever idea, re-using the information developed over millions of years of tree design...

The tree design takes up less room than flat-panel arrays and works in spots that don't have a full southern view. It collects more sunlight in winter. Shade and bad weather like snow don't hurt it because the panels are not flat. It even looks nicer because it looks like a tree. A design like this may work better in urban areas where space and direct sunlight can be hard to find.

processing.org - Open Source images, animations, and interactions

Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work. Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning, prototyping, and production.

Have not downloaded it yet, but it looks fascinating. See examples of what people have done.

» Free to download and open source
» Interactive programs using 2D, 3D or PDF output
» OpenGL integration for accelerated 3D
» For GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
» Projects run online or as double-clickable applications
» Over 100 libraries extend the software into sound, video, computer vision, and more...
» Well documented, with many books available