The Infinite Monkey Cage
Head in the Clouds - Owain Wyn Evans, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Amanda Maycock
December 10, 202542 min · 8,836 words
Show notes
Robin Ince and Brian Cox look up to the heavens as they try to ‘de-mistify’ the foggy science of clouds. They’re joined by Cloud Appreciation Society founder Gavin Pretor-Pinney, climate scientist Amanda Maycock, and former weather presenter and drummer Owain Wyn Evans, for a whirlwind tour of our too often-overlooked aerial realm.
Highlighted moments
The word cloud comes from the old English word clude, which means a rock or a boulder. It's wherever we get the clod of earth, that term from.
“they make the atmosphere visible. They're the face of the atmosphere. They're expressions on the face of the atmosphere.”
“a typical cumulus cloud, the ones we're talking about, might weigh somewhere between about 250 or 400 tons, something like a sort of typical 747 aircraft”
“if we did a sort of thought experiment and got rid of all the clouds on the planet and thought about what that would mean for our climate roughly we'd expect the temperature to be about 10 degrees warmer at the surface than without the clouds”
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