# 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, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-climate-change-deniers-publish/678811/143 "2014-01-20T19:20:36Z")

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> [@FXMastermind](#):
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> You won’t find it in a textbook

LOL … in addition to the 291,000 scientific papers on water vapor **feedback** , I’m also happy to quote a textbook…

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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.

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