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The Role of Water Vapor in Climate Change
Craig James Blog ^ | March 31,2007 | Craig James

Posted on 04/26/2007 8:14:29 AM PDT by DouglasKC

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Water vapor is responsible for up to 70% of the greenhouse gases!!! Whoduh thunk?
1 posted on 04/26/2007 8:14:32 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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PING


2 posted on 04/26/2007 8:15:12 AM PDT by hophead ("Enjoy Every Sandwich")
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Then it’s a polutant and the EPA must regulate it.


3 posted on 04/26/2007 8:16:28 AM PDT by DManA
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bttt


4 posted on 04/26/2007 8:20:24 AM PDT by amigatec (Carriers make wonderful diplomatic statements. Subs are for when diplomacy is over.)
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Breathing too much water can kill you.


5 posted on 04/26/2007 8:22:15 AM PDT by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08/But Fred would also be great)
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To: DouglasKC

bookmarked.


6 posted on 04/26/2007 8:22:38 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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We need water offsets. For instance, if I give up bathing then I should be able to sell my rights to the water I WOULD have used to someone who cares about offending others.


7 posted on 04/26/2007 8:25:49 AM PDT by DManA
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To: IrishCatholic

bookmarked also


8 posted on 04/26/2007 8:26:37 AM PDT by miele man (Continually voting against iodine deficient libs for 42 years)
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To: DouglasKC

Again science points to the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.


9 posted on 04/26/2007 8:27:51 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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The IPieceofCCr@p, Al Gore and the egghead priest/prostitute scientists all refuse to recognize the following facts:

1. 100,000-40,000 years ago, mile-thick ice sheets covered much of the Northern Hemisphere
2. 20,000-40,000 years ago a warming period began, which melted these ice sheets.
3. During the period of about 1000-1400 A.D., the Medieval Warm Period allowed for prolonged human settlement of Greenland, which is still not feasible today due to the cold climatic conditions.
4. About 1300-1400 the earth entered what is know as “The Little Ice Age,” from which it is still emerging.
5. The above worthies cannot properly identify the causes of all of the above, and thus cannot state that those causes are not the predominant movers of climate change today.

Those are just my 5 fun historical facts to trot out whenever confronted by the “True Believers.”


10 posted on 04/26/2007 8:30:30 AM PDT by henkster (Al Gore is the second coming...of Trofim Lysenko)
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To: dirtboy

Try to pass water vapor instead of the other stuff.


11 posted on 04/26/2007 8:32:31 AM PDT by steve8714
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Doug:

A really great post.

An observation - too many scientists live and work in an information bubble that provides a feedback loop of self-reinforcing thinking, while much of what could be learned and observed, outside that bubble, is ignored.

“Incomplete” is the outstanding accomplishment of the scientific thinking that emerges from these bubbles - like the bubble the man-made global warming advocates in “science” live and breath under.


12 posted on 04/26/2007 8:33:06 AM PDT by Wuli
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Global warmers hate to discuss clouds and snow because these act as giant natural mirrors bouncing sun heat back out to space. They especially don’t want to talk about man-made clouds and snow and the role of wind blown sand, dirt, and pollution which increase their formation. GWers are afraid to even research and model clouds because then the Luddite party would be over.


13 posted on 04/26/2007 8:33:40 AM PDT by Reeses
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Water vapor is responsible for up to 70% of the greenhouse gases!!! Whoduh thunk?

Ida thunk it to be higher - still do

14 posted on 04/26/2007 8:47:05 AM PDT by Smedley
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Ping for later reply


15 posted on 04/26/2007 8:50:27 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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I like to have really humid air in my greenhouse during the winter. It holds the heat better.


16 posted on 04/26/2007 8:51:26 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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>>>Breathing too much water can kill you.<<<

Water-boarding terroriwst suspects will contribute to global cooling. This is how we beat GW and the WOT at the same time.

Brilliant, simply Brilliant Hardstarboard; have another Guinness.

17 posted on 04/26/2007 8:51:42 AM PDT by HardStarboard (The Democrats are more afraid of American Victory than Defeat!)
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To: DouglasKC

Bump


18 posted on 04/26/2007 8:55:58 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: DouglasKC; curiosity

Ping to Curiosity,

Note, per our previous thread, that there is still very credible and objectionable scientific data and research that challenges the impact of Man Made CO2.

If you would like to debate these finer issues, then there is real progress being made. But as I said, Labeling us as “GW deniers” for citing debatable science behind the causes of global warming proves that the current alarmists propaganda has crossed the line from scientific in nature to religious. When science is thrown out and debate is stifled, then one can only rely on faith. I, therefore, question your “faith” in Man Made Global Warming.

(Note: I am not turning this into religious discussion as I am a devout Catholic. But use theses “radical” words to emphasize a point.)


19 posted on 04/26/2007 8:56:46 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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The most important players on the greenhouse stage are water vapor and clouds. Carbon dioxide has been increased to about 0.038% of the atmosphere (possibly from about 0.028% pre-Industrial Revolution) while water in its various forms ranges from 0% to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary by what form it is in and even at what altitude it is found in the atmosphere. In simple terms, however, the bulk of Earth's greenhouse effect is due to water vapor by virtue of its abundance. Water accounts for about 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect -- perhaps 70% is due to water vapor and about 20% due to clouds (mostly water droplets), some estimates put water as high as 95% of Earth's total greenhouse effect. The remaining portion comes from carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, ozone and miscellaneous other "minor greenhouse gases." As an example of the relative importance of water it should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3-4% are equivalent to the effect of doubling CO2.

http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/

20 posted on 04/26/2007 8:58:22 AM PDT by Smedley
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