# Why don't climate change deniers publish?

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**Created:** [January 14, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-climate-change-deniers-publish/678811 "2014-01-14T20:28:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-climate-change-deniers-publish/678811/135 "2014-01-20T17:06:34Z")

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> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
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> …You’d be dead wrong, of course; water vapor is a feedback loop, not a driver.

In the spirit of dispelling ignorance, not spreading it, let me show you why the claim “[water vapor is a feedback loop, not a driver](water vapor is a feedback loop, not a driver)” is a made up and false statement. Of course to be fair it might be the exact phrasing, so let’s look at “[water vapor is a feedback loop](https://www.google.com/#q=%22water+vapor+is+a+feedback+loop%22)”, which is the really wrong part of the claim.

Note that the first two sites below the **No results found for “water vapor is a feedback loop”** message are skepticalscience, which is to be expected, as it is a main source of so much bad science.

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