# What is your problem, Chronos?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 3, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519 "2025-11-03T03:41:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/77 "2025-11-04T22:06:24Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Water vapor is absolutely **not** persistent, except for trace amounts in the stratosphere from CH4 oxidation. Otherwise it is **never** considered a forcing in climate assessments but always treated as a feedback. I was not “intentionally” misquoting, “truncating”, or trying to play some stupid game as you seem to think.

You literally truncated the part of the post where I addressed the issue that you disagreed with, to wit:

> [@Are we going to be saved by natural hydrogen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-going-to-be-saved-by-natural-hydrogen/997065/2):
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> If we were able to utilize hydrogen as a combustion fuel at a scale comparable to current use of petrofuels **(especially at high altitude)** it would have a substantial continuous impact on global heating because water vapor is **a potent if not persistent greenhouse gas**.

> [@wolfpup](#):
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> I don’t want to derail this thread with this digression, but I just wanted to be clear. The proper response would be to admit you were wrong and move on.

You brought up this digression as a specific example of how I “react[ed] very badly to being corrected”, and then when the example is cited to see exactly what I objected to––specifically, your practice of quoting out of context sentence fragments to try to bolster your argument—you want to avoid discussing it.

Stranger

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