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

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“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/

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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
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