On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 22:29:28 -0700, Siri Cruise says...
> > The greenhouse warming effect of 40 trillion gallons of water vapor in the
> > stratosphere may have just kicked in recent months and will persist and peak
> > for 3-7 years Wow!
>
> And once in the air, water stays in the air.
Thanks for the not unfunny or unclever comment.
And that's why water vapour is a forcing that "out-weighs" the pittance of CO²
in the atmosphere, (of which man is responsible for the even smaller pittance
of 3%) and has a MUCH more profound effect on weather and climate than that
CO².
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NASA - Water Vapor Confirmed As Major Player In Climate Change
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.html
INCREASING WATER VAPOR LEADS TO WARMER TEMPERATURES, which causes more water
vapor to be absorbed into the air. Warming and water absorption increase in a
spiraling cycle. Based on climate variations between 2003 and 2008, the energy
trapped by water vapor is shown from southern to northern latitudes, peaking
near the equator.
Will Runaway Water Warm The World
AS THE EARTH HEATS UP MORE WATER WILL MAKE ITS WAY INTO THE ATMOSPHERE,
TRAPPING EVEN HEAT NEAR THE SURFACE. ... AND HUMIDITY IS ONE OF THE PRIMARY
FACTORS that will influence how much the climate will warm over the next
century. If the humidity of the atmosphere does indeed increase, it can as much
as double the warming from carbon dioxide ...
News Topics
News Topics - NASA - Water Vapor Confirmed as Major Player in Climate Change
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Steamy Relationships: How Atmospheric Water Vapor Amplifies Earth's Greenhouse
Effect
https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3143/steamy-relationships-
how-atmospheric-water-vapor-amplifies-earths-greenhouse-effect/
8 Feb 2022(The United Nations" Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth
Assessment Report states total atmospheric water vapor is increasing 1 to 2%
per decade.) For every degree Celsius that Earth's atmospheric temperature
rises, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere can increase by about 7%,
according to the laws of thermodynamics.
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Water Vapor And The Dynamics Of Climate Changes - Schneider - 2010 ...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2009 - RG000302
[5] Dynamic effects of water vapor in the global circulation of the atmosphere
have typically been discussed in the context of specific past climates, such as
that of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), or possible future climate changes in
response to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases.
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The Climatic Effects Of Water Vapour - Physics World
https://physicsworld.com/a/the-climatic-effects-of-water-vapour/
CONTRARY TO COMMON BELIEF, THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT MAY HAVE MORE TO DO WITH WATER
IN OUR ATMOSPHERE THAN GASES SUCH AS CARBON DIOXIDE Figure 2 Extreme variations
in local weather and the seasons make it easy for people to mutter "greenhouse
effect", and blame everything on carbon dioxide.
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Stratospheric Water Vapor Affecting Atmospheric Circulation | Nature ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39559-2
3 Jul 2023 - Through this circulation pathway, lowermost stratospheric water
vapor variations can affect tropospheric circulation and weather, and may cause
strong regional climate effects.
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Will Runaway Water Warm The World?
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/WaterVapor/water_vapor2.php
As anyone who lives in a humid climate can attest, water traps heat being
radiated from the Earth. In effect, water vapor envelops the Earth in a thick,
steamy blanket. ... which leads to more water vapor... The loop is called the
water vapor feedback, and it has the potential to be a serious problem.
Sherwood explains. ... its effect is much ...
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Climate Change: Warming And Water Vapor - Reasons To Believe
https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/climate-change-warming-and-
water-vapor
In an article published by Science (2010), 3 researchers suggest extra water
vapor that reached the stratosphere in the 1980s and 1990s enhanced climate
warming in the 90s up to 30 percent. Conversely, a 10 percent reduction in
stratospheric water vapor observed during the 2000 - S may have slowed warming
by 25 percent. 4
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Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount Of Water Into Stratosphere ...
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3204/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-
of-water-into-stratosphere/
2 Aug 2022 - In Brief: The huge amount of water vapor hurled into the
atmosphere, as detected by NASA's Microwave Limb Sounder, could end up
temporarily warming Earth's surface. When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano
erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a
sonic boom that circled the globe twice.