Mark & Steven Bornfeld wrote:
William Asher wrote:
Bob Schwartz wrote in news:JlEui.2970
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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?

Sorry, meant to say RELATIVE concentration in the atmosphere, at a
given altitude.

Steve

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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