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To: Sherman Logan

“The ecosphere is already saturated with water”

So, you are walking around in a dense fog right now? As is everyone else on earth?

Average Global Relative humidity at the surface is 78%. At higher altitudes it drops, being 37% at 30,000’.


41 posted on 10/11/2009 10:15:43 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: BwanaNdege
Average Global Relative humidity at the surface is 78%.

Correct.

However, since liquid water is widely exposed to the atmosphere, the system is at equilibrium. Liquid water evaporates and water vapor condenses. The addition of a miniscule amount of water vapor will not change these conditions.

49 posted on 10/12/2009 5:58:33 AM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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