Desert day — night temperature range is the highest anywhere due to
lack of water vapour; not CO2.
The difference is in the residence time, mainly due to
the lack of water vapour: the stratospheric injection of SO2 by the Pinatubo did last 2 - 3 years before the reflecting drops were large enough to fall out of the atmosphere.
Just as
the lack of water vapour allows rapid daytime heating, rapid night time cooling is the other side of the coin.
The lack of water vapour in the atmosphere there allows terahertz radiation from space to reach the ground and be detected.
Not exact matches
What is evident from the dust during the cool phase and
lack of dust during the warm phase was that the
water vapour content
of the air suddenly changed.
Neither you nor your reference proves any error in my explanation that Earth would be just as hot or hotter than the present if there were no
water,
water vapour, clouds, vegetation, carbon dioxide or other radiating gases in it atmosphere which would thus have no albedo due to
lack of clouds, and which rocky surface would have emissivity less than 0.88.
«The observed temporal trends in stratospheric
water vapour are poorly understood and this demonstrates our
lack of understanding
of how
water vapour enters the stratosphere.
The THS is a major fingerprint
of AGW and what is not understood by idiots like NO is that a THS would be a product
of water vapour feedback and is not a first order forcing; given that the
lack of a THS is entirely consistent with the decline
of water vapour levels in the mid to high troposphere.
There is the
lack of evidence supporting positive
water vapour feedback, suggesting that nature has a mechanism to limit the concentration
of water vapour in the atmosphere.
I recall one post on how Earth came out
of a snowball, which explanation may be a possibility but then again there may be other explanations (eg., oceanic volcanos splitting in the ice and thereby releasing some
water vapour, soot deposits changing albedo, even meteor collision — who knows given the
lack of evidence).
The
lack of attention to
water -
vapour and cloudiness led to criticisms
of crudeness, and again the matter
of the ocean absorbing the extra gas was raised in objection to Plass» suggestion that the extra carbon dioxide would remain in the atmosphere for a thousand years.