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Replying to Avatar Mike Dilger ☑️

I don't understand. This can't be right. If the water vapor increases 7% for a 1C rise, water vapor being a very potent greenhouse gas, that would make the temperature rise at least another 1C, which would bring 7% more water vapor, which would bring another 1C .... which is a runaway situation. If that was true, then it would have runaway long long ago. So something is wrong here, probably with my own assumptions. Can you correct them?

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Peter du Toit 2y ago

Sure. There is more detail on the interplay here

https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3143/steamy-relationships-how-atmospheric-water-vapor-amplifies-earths-greenhouse-effect/

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