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I still contend....

Comment comment by milhous on 22 January 2008

....that if the ice-caps melt and the atmosphere heats up, there is just more water to evaporate and fall as rain. Yea, this will cause more storms, be it snow, hurricane, monsoon, et al, but won't all of this rain lead to more vegetation which takes in CO2 and gives off O2? Whatever happened to Newton's laws that matter can't be created nor destroyed? Aren't we in equilibrium? Won't Chaos theory explain the deviation from equilibrium? What say you?

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RE: I still contend.... by gnifyus :: NR7

I'm no expert on this, but as it stands water vapor is by far the biggest contributor to the greenhouse effect. Matter isn't being created or destroyed; it's just locked in a frozen state at the earths poles for now. The link above seems to say that mankind's paltry emissions pale as compared with the effects of water vapor. (But maybe we were always at a tipping point with the water cycle and the extra gasses we are adding has thrown it off; who knows?)

So does that mean the more water in the atmosphere, the warmer we get, and therefore evaporate even more water into the air?

Given the percentages, I wonder if CO2 will even continue to be a significant factor in the whole thing at that point.

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