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Re: Climate change causes more water vapor in atmosphere, making things wet

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On 9/28/2018 9:09 PM, Sergio wrote:
> “For present Earth conditions, CO2 accounts for about a third of the
> clear-sky greenhouse effect in the tropics and for a somewhat greater
> portion in the drier, colder extratropics; the remainder is mostly due
> to water vapor. The contribution of CO2 to the greenhouse effect,
> considerable though it is, understates the central role of the gas as a
> controller of climate. The atmosphere, if CO2 were removed from it,
> would cool enough that much of the water vapor would rain out. That
> precipitation, in turn, would cause further cooling and ultimately
> spiral Earth into a globally glaciated state. It is only the presence of
> CO2 that keeps Earth’s atmosphere warm enough to contain much water
> vapor. Conversely, increasing CO2 would warm the atmosphere and
> ultimately result in greater water-vapor content – a now well understood
> situation known as water vapor feedback.”
> 
> 
> https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/2018/06/09/does-global-warming-increase-total-atmospheric-water-vapor-tpw/
> 
Killer paper, Sergio!

Too Bad Pupa can't read.

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Climate change causes more water vapor in atmosphere, making things wet Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-09-28 20:09 -0500
  Re: Climate change causes more water vapor in atmosphere, making things wet benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 23:46 -0400
  Re: Climate change causes more water vapor in atmosphere, making things wet Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-10-01 11:36 -0500

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