Good. You caught it.
Mars does indeed have water, but it's sparse and locked away in ice. What sublimates to the atmosphere produces a humidity that is less than Earth's driest deserts.
One of the conditions of formation of clouds by cosmic rays is sufficient humidity. There is one another condition on Mars that is different from Earth that affects such cloud formation. Can you name it?
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I have to take issue with (1).
I deny 'climate change' has any meaning, therefore I deny any changes are possible to a climate.
I do not deny there are different climates, but 'climate' itself is a subjective term. It has no quantifiable value. There is no way to describe a 'change' for there is no way to describe how much 'change' has occurred.
Earth simply has different climates. There is no global climate, for there is no global weather. Where a desert happens to form on Earth might change, but a desert climate is still a desert climate.
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Yes. They are. I was hoping to get Cypress (who brought up the argument in this forum) to come to terms with this, but it seems he won't deal with defending it.
Since you did not guess what the other factor between Mars and Earth that affects cloud formation is, the answer is simply temperature of formation. Clouds will not form without a drop in temperature. It takes energy for cosmic nucleation of a cloud. The cosmic ray itself provides some, but the rest comes from the air around and within the cloud. The effect is very small, but it's there.
Clouds on Earth, however, form simply by convective heating, a far more powerful method than cosmic rays.
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