07-09-2009, 07:45 AM
Quote:In measuring the "green house effect", you need to measure the impact of both water vapor, as well as other GHG's in absorbing and dissipating heat, as well as clouds (and other albedo sources) in both insulting the ground and reflecting radiation away. It has been a big mistake in this whole debate not to attempt to understand this highly complex system.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 relfective 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 dowright shocked.
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.
-Jester