Sentences with phrase «keeping more water vapor»
The incorrect sensitivity of climate to CO2 that the models have depends upon warmer temperatures keeping more water vapor in the atmosphere.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
The warming due to water vapor helps the air hold water, but in the Earth's orbit, it is not actually sufficient to keep the air warm enough to keep the water it already has — so you go into the death spiral, with a bit of cooling, less water, then more cooling, and so on to Snowball.
This means that every 2 degree potential rise in temperature of the surface layer causes an 8 fold rise in the amount of water vapor release hence buckets more clouds and massive albedo reflection keeping the temperature from riding.
You know the science behind it's called the green house effect when the sun beams down on the earth to provide energy to plants after that it reflects out to space but CO2, H2O (Water Vapor), and AO2 capture these particles and keep them in the earth adding more heat to the earth.
Ouch, I almost forgot those 0.004 % of CO2, but compared with hundreds times more water vapor, clouds and ice reflecting 30 % of direct sunlight, it keeps me rather indifferent.
We know further, from laboratory work, that CO2, and more importantly water vapor, in the atmosphere serves to keep the Earth warmer than it would be in their absence.
I agree that the OTs need to move to Unthreaded in order to keep this thread on track — or at the least the track I had in mind which is looking in more detail at water vapor reanalysis.
The end result is there's virtually no heating beyond the first few micrometers and the molecules near the surface just keep picking up more and more energy as latent heat until they have enough energy to vaporize and then they leave the surface and quickly convect upwards because water vapor is lighter than air.
Dave Springer says: ``... the molecules near the surface just keep picking up more and more energy as latent heat until they have enough energy to vaporize and then they leave the surface and quickly convect upwards because water vapor is lighter than air.