Climate Policy

[kandrathe]

Your understanding of the scientific literature is that there has been no attempt to address the issues of the greenhouse effect of water vapor, the role of GHGs in absorbing and dissipating heat, and the insulating and reflective effect of albedo and clouds? I'm way too lazy to search the literature, but if you didn't find at least a dozen papers on each of those topics in the last decade alone, I'd be downright shocked.

I found quite a few, but you are correct, most of the physics and chemistry is beyond me.

Or did you mean in the debate here on the Lounge? I don't know that we have anyone qualified to understand a technical paper on any of those issues, let alone combine them into a comprehensible synthesis.

Right, I meant here at the Lounge. I don't think eppie should just dismiss water vapor, since it is the most significant factor in the green house effect (~ 70 to 90%). Although, he might just be talking about variation depending on temperature. Yet, it seemed like he was saying it was irrelevant.