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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult?
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (3389)11/21/2013 1:57:35 PM
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Well said! My view evolved when I compared apples to apples, which was just converting water vapor to parts per million. H2O and CO2 both have 3 molecules, and H2O is bent, so it has even more degrees of freedom when absorbing IR energy.

In Florida on a typical summer day, mornings start out at about 25,000 ppm of H2O and spikes to 35,000-40,000 ppm in the afternoon. Phew. 100-200 ppm is absorbed into rounding error. I'm off by 1000-5000 ppm.

Furthermore at ~STP, a dew point of -27F gives you 200 ppm of H2O, and a dew point of -20F gives you 400 ppm of H2O. Again, lots of rounding error, but I think the point is made. I don't know what substantial radiative differences occur between those 2 dew points. Somehow that is enough to lead to enhanced baroclinic energy conversions causing severe weather outbreaks in November? I don't think so.

Of course, respect Mother Earth. She will kill us all :)
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