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On 07/29/2003 03:16 AM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
water vapour doesn't do the heat trapping - CO2 does.
How do we know that? How sure are we?
Not everyone considers that self-evident, e.g.
http://ganesh.colorado.edu/astr3720/exam2_sol.html (item 11)
http://www.etl.noaa.gov/et2/#wv
http://astro.gmu.edu/classes/a10594/notes/l13/gif/l13s046.gif
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/16/5/7
http://www.earth.nasa.gov/visions/in-situ/chap33a.htm
"Of the greenhouse gases water vapor is by far the most
abundant and therefore the strongest absorber"