Sentences with phrase «powerful as water vapor»

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This acts as a positive feedback on the surface warming, because water vapor itself is a powerful greenhouse gas that, like CO2, absorbs and re-emits longwave radiation back to the surface.

Its warming effect, however, is simultaneously amplified and dampened by positive and negative feedbacks such as increased water vapor (the most powerful greenhouse gas), reduced albedo, which is a measure of Earth's reflectivity, changes in cloud characteristics, and CO2 exchanges with the ocean and terrestrial ecosystems.

As such, we can reasonably expect that the hotter the air is, the more humid it can be and, because water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas, the hotter the air will get.

Although less common than carbon dioxide and water vapor, each molecule is far more powerful and potentially as significant for global warming.

Water vapor is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, so its potential strength as a feedback mechanism is high.