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	<title>Comments on: Everything is caused by global warming</title>
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	<description>School's out. The New School is in session.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Simmons</title>
		<link>http://www.newschoolpolitics.com/domestic-politics/everything-is-caused-by-global-warming/#comment-736</link>
		<dc:creator>Simmons</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had never heard any of this math they spewed out anywhere. I must have wasted the last 40 minutes trying to find the source of this. All the sites with the .28% number appear to link back to this source: http://mysite.verizon.net/mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

Yes. A random, Verizon blog.

And you know what the central argument that blog makes? Scientists don't take water vapor into account. To sum up the whole argument of that website: "This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or  isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one."

You can not seriously say with a straight face anymore that water vapor is not being taken into account. It has been debunked so many times by us non-skeptics.
The air can only hold so much water. This is called "saturation". Water vapor contributes to 60% of the NATURAL greenhouse effect. Because the atmosphere can only hold so much water, water vapor does not contribute to the ENHANCED greenhouse effect (global warming).
In other words, there will always be just about the same amount of water vapor in the air globally.

Scientists don't look for human water vapor emissions and say, "FOSSIL FUELS!". For example, nuclear power plants emit water vapor (that's, obviously, all that steamy stuff you see coming out of the smoke stack-like things). You don't here anyone complaining nuclear power contributes to global warming in that way, do you?

Real Climate explains even more: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=142</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had never heard any of this math they spewed out anywhere. I must have wasted the last 40 minutes trying to find the source of this. All the sites with the .28% number appear to link back to this source: <a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html" rel="nofollow">http://mysite.verizon.net/mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html</a></p>
<p>Yes. A random, Verizon blog.</p>
<p>And you know what the central argument that blog makes? Scientists don&#8217;t take water vapor into account. To sum up the whole argument of that website: &#8220;This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or  isn&#8217;t factored into an analysis of Earth&#8217;s greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.&#8221;</p>
<p>You can not seriously say with a straight face anymore that water vapor is not being taken into account. It has been debunked so many times by us non-skeptics.<br />
The air can only hold so much water. This is called &#8220;saturation&#8221;. Water vapor contributes to 60% of the NATURAL greenhouse effect. Because the atmosphere can only hold so much water, water vapor does not contribute to the ENHANCED greenhouse effect (global warming).<br />
In other words, there will always be just about the same amount of water vapor in the air globally.</p>
<p>Scientists don&#8217;t look for human water vapor emissions and say, &#8220;FOSSIL FUELS!&#8221;. For example, nuclear power plants emit water vapor (that&#8217;s, obviously, all that steamy stuff you see coming out of the smoke stack-like things). You don&#8217;t here anyone complaining nuclear power contributes to global warming in that way, do you?</p>
<p>Real Climate explains even more: <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=142" rel="nofollow">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=142</a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan</title>
		<link>http://www.newschoolpolitics.com/domestic-politics/everything-is-caused-by-global-warming/#comment-734</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Evidence, Simmons?

(See my addendum to the post for data on human greenhouse contribution)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Evidence, Simmons?</p>
<p>(See my addendum to the post for data on human greenhouse contribution)</p>
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		<title>By: Simmons</title>
		<link>http://www.newschoolpolitics.com/domestic-politics/everything-is-caused-by-global-warming/#comment-732</link>
		<dc:creator>Simmons</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"The fact remains that the scientific data does not add up to the earth melting. For one, humans contribute a very small fraction of the greenhouse effect (try less than 2%)."
I don't think that's true... Period.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The fact remains that the scientific data does not add up to the earth melting. For one, humans contribute a very small fraction of the greenhouse effect (try less than 2%).&#8221;<br />
I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s true&#8230; Period.</p>
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