# I'm sick of this Global Warming!

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**Created:** [August 16, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440 "2013-08-16T18:57:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/1604 "2014-01-29T20:17:43Z")

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For example, I posted a complete thought about something you claimed, and provided evidence for why I said it.

> [@Why don't climate change deniers publish?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-climate-change-deniers-publish/678811/138):
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> The problem is, when people make things up, like “Water vapor is a feedback and not a forcing”, there isn’t any evidence that such a statement exists, except where somebody made it up.
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> You won’t find it [in a textbook](https://www.google.com/#q=%22Water+vapor+is+a+feedback+and+not+a+forcing%22), or [any scientific paper](http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Water+vapor+is+a+feedback+and+not+a+forcing%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C10&as_sdtp=), or even on a real climate science page.
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> Instead you get blogs, where people say all kinds of stupid things, but don’t back it up with science. Evidence. Note that the 9 hits are all blogs.
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> If you type any [real phrase](http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22water+vapor+is+the+main+greenhouse+gas%22&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10) into Google scholar, or Google, you get real sources right away, not a few blogs. Like “Water vapor acts as a greenhouse gas”, which returns real science sources, like [www.upi.com](http://www.upi.com)  
> carnegiescience.edu/news/water\_evaporated\_trees\_cools\_global\_climate‎  
> [https://www-airs.jpl.nasa.gov/climate/‎](https://www-airs.jpl.nasa.gov/climate/%E2%80%8E)
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> Same for [Google scholar](http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Water+vapor+acts+as+a+greenhouse+gas%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C10&as_sdtp=), so it’s easy to see it’s a real phrase, from science. Not bloggers.

Instead of admitting what I said is true, you come back with a quote that does not contain the very thing I told you did not exist in a textbpook.

> [@](#):
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> In rough terms, the physics of the water vapor feedback is very simple. Warmer air can hold more water vapor. In a warmer climate, the troposphere will have the potential to hold larger concentrations of water vapor. Water vapor is an effective greenhouse gas (the most important greenhouse gas in the climatological greenhouse effect), and thus it can add greatly to the initial warming if it increases. Figure 6.5 shows this process.

Courtesy of “Climate Change and Climate Modeling”, J. Neelin, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

> [@Why don't climate change deniers publish?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-climate-change-deniers-publish/678811/143):
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> LOL … in addition to the 291,000 scientific papers on water vapor **feedback** , I’m also happy to quote a textbook…

And you actually think that countered what I clearly stated;

\*\*“When people make things up, like “Water vapor is a feedback and not a forcing”, there isn’t any evidence that such a statement exists, except where somebody made it up.”  
\*\* I pointed out the claim “Water vapor is a feedback and not a forcing” won’t appear in a textbook. You quote something else from a textbook, and claim victory or something.

And you can’t grasp that.

Priceless.

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