Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: WHY IS MOIST AIR LESS DENSE THAN DRY AIR AT SAME TEMPERATURE Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:29:32 +1100 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <7eb635fe-eecd-4e40-933e-a94b9328745f@googlegroups.com> <705e0c81-4b78-4ccf-acb9-51e5768b4be7@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net NRo+9mmCHRqWyotZO4pWCQDphBGPg41pObkPEwVEk5Vop7ZN7F Cancel-Lock: sha1:bKw0NRKr8Qw7uNqrtCzPKYVt51E= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: <705e0c81-4b78-4ccf-acb9-51e5768b4be7@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:545787 On 16/01/2016 2:13 PM, James McGinn wrote: > On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 7:04:34 PM UTC-8, Sylvia Else wrote: > >>> 1) Earth's atmosphere is too cool for steam >> >> It's not too cool for water vapour, though, as is evidenced by the >> fact that wet clothes turn into dry clothes without the application >> of heat. > > Steam is gaseous H2O. Vapor (evaporate) is not gaseous. It is still > liquid, suspended in air. > > This is pretty simple, Sylvia. You could have figured this out with > the slightest effort. Saying that it's a liquid suspended in air doesn't make so. >>> 3) The livelihood of many, both in meteorology and climatology, >>> depend on the public not realizing #1 and #2 >>> >> >> The public probably do realise (1), but it's not relevant. > > They don't think about it. It is relevant. > >> They don't realise (2) because it's not true. > > It's true. I'm a trained meteorologists. I know the models. Cite a specific model that assumes steam. Sylvia.