The authors of
the article on cosmic rays and cloud changes clearly indicate (both in the abstract and in their Fig. 5) that a decrease in cloudiness (linked to a decrease in cosmic rays) is associated with an INCREASE of surface level air temperature, in other words clouds give negative feedback.
Not exact matches
Many of the news
articles and blog posts covering the CLOUD
article understandably focused much more
on the
cosmic -
ray / cloud connection as it is easy to tie this connection into the climate debate.
I have to say that this is mostly over my head, but I note that a recent Scientific American
article on how
cosmic rays might be the seeds for a cascade which results in lightning, and that without these
rays, lightning might not happen was pretty cool.