William Asher wrote:
Bob Schwartz wrote in news:JlEui.2970
:

wrote:
P.S. I wrote this entire rant to have an excuse
to post "homosphere" to RBR.
First use in rbr, congratulations. And congratulations to tk for
another successful climate troll.

Can I get an honorable mention for keeping my mouth shut?

Oh wait, I just didn't. Never mind.

Anyway, there is an interesting thing about the homosphere, and that is
that one of the most important greenhouse gases, water vapor, is not
uniformly distributed through it. This is due mainly to the effect that
water freezes at a very high temperature relative to the other gases in
the atmosphere. The relevance to climate forcing is that while water
vapor decreases in mixing ratio as you go up, CO2 doesn't.

You mean, absolute percentage of atmosphere with increased altitude?

Just tryin' to keep up,

Steve


This is why
the skeptic argument that water vapor is more important than CO2 in terms
of anthropogenic radiative forcing is a myth. In the upper troposphere,
CO2 takes a larger role in terms of the radiative transfer.

http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/mockler.html

What Tom and people like him don't get, and never will, is that the
science for all of this is done. The gaps in understanding that are left
are esoteric and involve things skeptics never contemplate, mainly
because they don't have the technical background to understand them
(e.g., the many various flavors of the indirect aerosol effect).

I wouldn't be so cranky if I weren't stuck in Maryland for the next two
weeks. It is hot here.



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