Much of the warming feared by the alarmists relies upon a positive feedback
involving increased water vapour exaggerating any CO2 warming effect.
Not exact matches
We have far more data about
increasing CO2 than
increasing water vapor, hence if we want to test this hypothesis by looking for a correlation between global warming and the combined effect of CO2 and H2O, a correlation with CO2 alone is more feasible than one
involving water vapour.
Bear in mind that the representation of clouds in climate models (and of the
water vapour which is intimately
involved with cloud formation) is such as to amplify the forecast global warming from
increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide — on average over most of the models — by a factor of about three (5).
On the other hand, Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS, one of the topmost scientists
involved in the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming cause, in a recent paper clearly asserts that: • 75 % of the Greenhouse effect is attributable to
water vapour and clouds • 100 % of the
increase in CO2 emissions since 1850 (110 ppmv) is Man - made Following these numbers through and accounting for the effect of other Greenhouse gases results in a Man - made temperature rise between 1850 and 2010 of 2.21 °C.