As humans, a clever animal species, we have taken over the direction of the planet's future. We are that confident in our ability. Our ankles are inflated. The planet was given to us by god to do some conquering, shooting, ploughing and fishing. We have not held back.

We still fight each other for some space or even ideas. There are few peaks or cracks we have not explored. Deep in the oceans we've observed some strange creatures that must have been made by the devil himself, but we'll give the goddess the benefit of the doubt.

But clouds and the weather are still intriguing us. 

In a global warming world which most of us, imbeciles, don't understand while the idiots don't want to understand because understanding stuff demands hard work, considering that "believing in a goddess" is a piece of cake — with amazing redemption as we "sin" (what can be better than this?) "should we believe" — clouds hold a certain key in feedback mechanisms which can slow or accelerate the process of warming. 

We're still nebulous about it, though we can imagine Armageddon with fanfares and clouds like billowing damnation, of course. In our little gnat brains, Armageddon could not happen with a clear sky.

Imbeciles are born that way. Idiots are learned people who decide not to understand much. That's a small difference I make. And there is a bit of idiot in all of us including some sociopathy. We have various fuses in regard to various issues. Clouds are weirder — they don't have intent nor purpose, but they're there responding to various input.

Over the years of meteorology, we have classified clouds according to shape, altitude and sizes. Gus' latest nomination was the "fluffus" — seen not so rarely these days as low unshaped clouds that float around 50/100 metres above ground level. Not to be confused with fog. Fog is mostly unified and touches the surface.

Carbon dioxide changes the behaviour of water vapour. There are quite a lot of different manifestation of water in the atmosphere, apart from cloud shapes and sizes. There is dew, clear water vapour and ice. Scientific data has shown that CO2 affects the "clouds".
In the name of science, some scientists have been studying the effect of CO2 on atmospheric temperatures between 0 and minus 40 degrees Celsius, thus according to altitude variations from polar to equatorial layering. It's complicated. The feedback mechanisms are not uniform. Though quite impressively large, observations are still sketchy because the ensemble to study in giganormous. But some trends and patterns emerge nonetheless — enough data to publish. 

Pity the awful tragedy of our CSIRO being decimated by Turnbull.  Real science is to be scaled down while research has to be devoted to the invention — er sorry, "the innovation" — of a new electric toilet brush. We are big on innovation, and in short supply of understanding, especially in our glorious world of "economic" endeavour, where auctioned trickery is king. 

Everything we do has a price. But when the awful payola is barely 15 years down the track, we still fiddle with our economic endeavour exclusively around our own present illusions of comfort. Bugger the koalas.

So clouds can be complicated. Some will have no ice, water vapour only. Some will have ice and water vapour, some will have ice crystals only (they're the ones usually high up). 

When the ice crystals become too large they become subjected to gravity and fall. Accumulation of these crystals as they tumble create hail of various sized, depending on which part of the cloud they form. 

I repeat myself from a previous post: my personal observation tells me that though not exclusively, big hailstones will form inside the updraft of a cloud. Small hailstones the size of olives, especially those that fall faster than gravity and can do nasty damage, form on the outside of the clouds, in the downdrafts. At say fifty metres per seconds, the downdraft adds about 25 per cent more speed than the "normal gravity" fall, even as the atmosphere become denser with altitude drop. A word for the insurance industry: 25 per cent more speed can create 50 per cent more damage, especially to crops.

Some clouds will be "invisible". There could be some clear water vapour (we call it "humidity") as well as invisible ice crystals. So the observations in regard to ice, water vapour and CO2 is subject to many chaotic yet balancing variables. 

In the end, on top of CO2 being a warming gas per se, the albedo of clouds is a strong factor in variation of global warming. As well the reflective cloud cover can act as a blanket and retain heat below. The sum of all these these opposing feedback processes show a trend towards warming. The trend is accelerating towards the next plateau, which I have estimated at 6 to 9 degrees Celsius, but as we keep adding more CO2 into the system, the goddess knows when the next balancing act of the atmosphere will be.

While human have burned fossil fuels, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has gone more than 100 ppm above the maximum observed NATURAL level of 300 ppm. This is a sin. A major sin... The sins of our leaders are not that they devise more economic dreams to shackle us into slaves of debt, nor that some of them idiots are utterly racists, but that they outrageously disgrace our future and feign to account for emissions while they clearly are not. Actually, it's not a sin — sins are redeemable in the clouds of the generous goddess' afterlife... This is an outrageous disgrace and it is utterly unforgivable, especially when we have the scientific tools to know. 

Malcolm Turnbull is an idiot who is starting to make Tony Abbott look less of an imbecile. May both rot in hell, I mean in the putrid cesspool of decomposing life.