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To: RetiredNow who wrote (15383)12/16/2009 3:40:02 PM
From: RetiredNow2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86356
 
SATELLITE SEES "LUMPY" LAYER OF CO2
news.discovery.com

Andrew Dessler, a Texas A&M climate scientist studying the data, said the observations "have corroborated climate model predictions that the warming of our climate produced as carbon dioxide levels rise will be greatly exacerbated -- in fact, more than doubled -- by water vapor." This finding "essentially guarantees" warming "by several degrees Celsius" in the next century unless some unknown "strong negative feedback mechanism emerges elsewhere in Earth's climate system."