Head in the Clouds - Owain Wyn Evans, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Amanda Maycock

云巅之上 - 欧文·温·埃文斯,加文·普雷托-平尼,阿曼达·梅克科克

The Infinite Monkey Cage

2025-12-10

42 分钟
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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. The panel explores how clouds form, why they take such extraordinary shapes, and how satellites and weather balloons help us keep track of them. They discover why low clouds cool the planet but high clouds warm it and why a cloud that weighs as much as a jumbo jet manages to stay up in the sky. From the physics of a crisp packet balancing on a cumulonimbus to the shimmering beauty of noctilucent clouds, tune in for this cirrus-ly fascinating episode. Series Producer: Mel Brown Researcher: Alex Rodway Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem A BBC Studios Production
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  • Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

  • I'm Robin Ince, and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage.

  • Now, all of you, and I imagine there's been a few daydreamers here,

  • when you stare out of the window at school, that's what they say.

  • Concentrate!

  • What are you doing staring out of the window?

  • Well, for some people, it wasn't just daydreaming.

  • It was practicing to become a meteorologist or a cloud expert.

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