{"id":244752,"date":"2010-01-29T01:23:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T06:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2010-01-29T01:23:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T06:23:49","slug":"there%e2%80%99s-a-joker-in-the-global-warming-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/244752","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a joker in the global warming deck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And surprisingly it’s stratospheric water vapor. Water vapor in a thin wedge of the upper atmosphere seems to have a strong effect on surface\u00a0temperatures<\/a>, and might be the explanation for both the rapid rise of the 1990s and subsequent dire predictions for global\u00a0temperature\u00a0in the short term. All the more reason to let science do its job of reasoned skepticism<\/a>, and not turn into political dogma.<\/p>\n

From the first link:<\/p>\n

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Water vapor is a highly variable gas and has long been recognized as an important player in the cocktail of greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, halocarbons, nitrous oxide, and others — that affect climate.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrent\u00a0climate models<\/a> do a remarkable job on water vapor near the surface. But this is different \u2014 it\u2019s a thin wedge of the\u00a0upper atmosphere<\/a> that packs a wallop from one decade to the next in a way we didn\u2019t expect,\u201d says Susan Solomon, NOAA senior scientist and first author of the study.<\/p>\n

Since 2000, water vapor in the stratosphere decreased by about 10 percent. The reason for the recent decline in water vapor is unknown. The new study used calculations and models to show that the cooling from this change caused surface temperatures to increase about 25 percent more slowly than they would have otherwise, due only to the increases in\u00a0carbon dioxide<\/a> and other greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n

An increase in stratospheric water vapor in the 1990s likely had the opposite effect of increasing the rate of warming observed during that time by about 30 percent, the authors found.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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And surprisingly it’s stratospheric water vapor. Water vapor in a thin wedge of the upper atmosphere seems to have a strong effect on surface\u00a0temperatures, and might be the explanation for both the rapid rise of the 1990s and subsequent dire predictions for global\u00a0temperature\u00a0in the short term. All the more reason to let science do its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}