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@Veritatem2021 @Willard1951 @MarshallCd @Data79504085 @Anvndarnamn5 @BradPKeyes @3GHtweets @Ceist8 @VerplaetseJef @Climatehope2 @Jaisans @Mark_A_Lunn @AuroriaTwittori @RushhourP @JimBowersclimb @MartinJBern @EthonRaptor @BailFund_Brawl @AristotleMrs @gstrandberg1 @ItsTheAtmospher @Jakegsm @ammocrypta @EricWil06256732 @DTGvmd @wille99 @PaulDFarrar @TheDisproof @Hji45519156 @KCTaz @Valja46Zhark5 @drochir_thonnuk @paulp1232 @ShroedingerBird @J0aquIm_B4rb0s4 @Sky48115666 @0Sundance @BointonGiles @DoesThisW0rk @FD2you @S_D_Mannix @glinch72 @TWTThisIsNow @JustThi30117912 @ChrisBBacon3 @B_Bolshevik100 @rosmadiwahab @Robert76907841 @BolzmannMichael @ProfMickWilson 1/7》That water cycle is a classic phase-change refrigeration cycle, like the Freon refrigeration cycle in your refrigerator: Water evaporates at the surface, absorbing latent heat. The molecular weight of water vapor molecules is just 18, so moist air is lighter than dry air...

@Veritatem2021 @Willard1951 @MarshallCd @Data79504085 @Anvndarnamn5 @BradPKeyes @3GHtweets @Ceist8 @VerplaetseJef @Climatehope2 @Jaisans @Mark_A_Lunn @AuroriaTwittori @RushhourP @JimBowersclimb @MartinJBern @EthonRaptor @BailFund_Brawl @AristotleMrs @gstrandberg1 @ItsTheAtmospher @Jakegsm @ammocrypta @EricWil06256732 @DTGvmd @wille99 @PaulDFarrar @TheDisproof @Hji45519156 @KCTaz @Valja46Zhark5 @drochir_thonnuk @paulp1232 @ShroedingerBird @J0aquIm_B4rb0s4 @Sky48115666 @0Sundance @BointonGiles @DoesThisW0rk @FD2you @S_D_Mannix @glinch72 @TWTThisIsNow @JustThi30117912 @ChrisBBacon3 @B_Bolshevik100 @rosmadiwahab @Robert76907841 @BolzmannMichael @ProfMickWilson 2/7》So the moist air rises to the mid-troposphere, where the water condenses into clouds, releasing the “latent heat” which it had absorbed at the surface. That process is the most important way in which heat is removed from surface of the Earth.
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@Veritatem2021 @Willard1951 @MarshallCd @Data79504085 @Anvndarnamn5 @BradPKeyes @3GHtweets @Ceist8 @VerplaetseJef @Climatehope2 @Jaisans @Mark_A_Lunn @AuroriaTwittori @RushhourP @JimBowersclimb @MartinJBern @EthonRaptor @BailFund_Brawl @AristotleMrs @gstrandberg1 @ItsTheAtmospher @Jakegsm @ammocrypta @EricWil06256732 @DTGvmd @wille99 @PaulDFarrar @TheDisproof @Hji45519156 @KCTaz @Valja46Zhark5 @drochir_thonnuk @paulp1232 @ShroedingerBird @J0aquIm_B4rb0s4 @Sky48115666 @0Sundance @BointonGiles @DoesThisW0rk @FD2you @S_D_Mannix @glinch72 @TWTThisIsNow @JustThi30117912 @ChrisBBacon3 @B_Bolshevik100 @rosmadiwahab @Robert76907841 @BolzmannMichael @ProfMickWilson 3/7》On cool nights the opposite happens: moisture from the air condenses on the ground, releasing latent heat, and warming the ground.

That's why humid areas get dew on the ground, and stay relatively warm at night.

@Veritatem2021 @Willard1951 @MarshallCd @Data79504085 @Anvndarnamn5 @BradPKeyes @3GHtweets @Ceist8 @VerplaetseJef @Climatehope2 @Jaisans @Mark_A_Lunn @AuroriaTwittori @RushhourP @JimBowersclimb @MartinJBern @EthonRaptor @BailFund_Brawl @AristotleMrs @gstrandberg1 @ItsTheAtmospher @Jakegsm @ammocrypta @EricWil06256732 @DTGvmd @wille99 @PaulDFarrar @TheDisproof @Hji45519156 @KCTaz @Valja46Zhark5 @drochir_thonnuk @paulp1232 @ShroedingerBird @J0aquIm_B4rb0s4 @Sky48115666 @0Sundance @BointonGiles @DoesThisW0rk @FD2you @S_D_Mannix @glinch72 @TWTThisIsNow @JustThi30117912 @ChrisBBacon3 @B_Bolshevik100 @rosmadiwahab @Robert76907841 @BolzmannMichael @ProfMickWilson 4/7》The clouds that are formed as a result of that process have a warming effect at night, but a strong shading / cooling effect in daytime.

The total effects of water vapor & clouds on the Earth's temperatures are very complex and poorly understood.
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@Veritatem2021 @Willard1951 @MarshallCd @Data79504085 @Anvndarnamn5 @BradPKeyes @3GHtweets @Ceist8 @VerplaetseJef @Climatehope2 @Jaisans @Mark_A_Lunn @AuroriaTwittori @RushhourP @JimBowersclimb @MartinJBern @EthonRaptor @BailFund_Brawl @AristotleMrs @gstrandberg1 @ItsTheAtmospher @Jakegsm @ammocrypta @EricWil06256732 @DTGvmd @wille99 @PaulDFarrar @TheDisproof @Hji45519156 @KCTaz @Valja46Zhark5 @drochir_thonnuk @paulp1232 @ShroedingerBird @J0aquIm_B4rb0s4 @Sky48115666 @0Sundance @BointonGiles @DoesThisW0rk @FD2you @S_D_Mannix @glinch72 @TWTThisIsNow @JustThi30117912 @ChrisBBacon3 @B_Bolshevik100 @rosmadiwahab @Robert76907841 @BolzmannMichael @ProfMickWilson 5/7》But Pierrehumbert wasn't talking about any of those things. He was talking only about the radiative role of water vapor in the atmosphere, absorbing and emitting LW IR radiation -- what he called the "greenhouse effect."

@Veritatem2021 @Willard1951 @MarshallCd @Data79504085 @Anvndarnamn5 @BradPKeyes @3GHtweets @Ceist8 @VerplaetseJef @Climatehope2 @Jaisans @Mark_A_Lunn @AuroriaTwittori @RushhourP @JimBowersclimb @MartinJBern @EthonRaptor @BailFund_Brawl @AristotleMrs @gstrandberg1 @ItsTheAtmospher @Jakegsm @ammocrypta @EricWil06256732 @DTGvmd @wille99 @PaulDFarrar @TheDisproof @Hji45519156 @KCTaz @Valja46Zhark5 @drochir_thonnuk @paulp1232 @ShroedingerBird @J0aquIm_B4rb0s4 @Sky48115666 @0Sundance @BointonGiles @DoesThisW0rk @FD2you @S_D_Mannix @glinch72 @TWTThisIsNow @JustThi30117912 @ChrisBBacon3 @B_Bolshevik100 @rosmadiwahab @Robert76907841 @BolzmannMichael @ProfMickWilson 6/7》He wrote, "For present Earth conditions, CO2 accounts for about a third of the clear-sky greenhouse effect in the tropics and for a somewhat greater portion in the drier, colder extratropics... the remainder is mostly due to water vapor."