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Or warmer temperatures mean more evaporation which means LESS clouds...
Cause, I don't see your negative feedback at work in these data:
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Or warmer temperatures mean more evaporation which means LESS clouds...
There's a very good reason why weather stations report relative humidity, and not absolute humidity ... as cloud formation depends strictly on relative humidity, and not absolute humidity ... another thing to keep in mind is that the equilibrium state of the atmosphere is to be fully saturated with water vapor, RH = 100% ... most of us never see this living on land, but out over the ocean any dry air mass near the surface with suck up water as fast as the air can ... increasing surface temperatures increases evaporation ...
Now, let me introduce you to something we call the Law of Conservation of Mass ... water can be neither created nor destroyed under normal environmental conditions ... so all the water evaporated into the atmosphere will eventual condense and form cloud droplets ... the more water evaporated, the more clouds will form ... Meteorology 201 ...
The IPCC and Alarmists completely ignore this basic fact of nature ... first because including the convective transfer of energy ruins any and all predictions of catastrophe ... as this convective transfer of energy occurs without a change in temperature ... the energy required to evaporate one gram of water would raise the temperature of one gram of dry air by 2,100ºC ... this seriously reduced the radiative transfer and the effects of CO2 on atmospheric temperatures ... second, more clouds increases albedo, less solar energy reaching the surface and being absorbed ... less energy being re-emitted as IR to be interfered with by CO2 ...
IPCC has to ignore this, or their reason to exist would cease ... no more pay to write reports 7 times longer than the Holy Bible ...
I may not be smarter than a climatologist, but I sure as am smarter than you ... and all I did was take a class ... maybe something you should look into ...
Oh, aren't you the smart one; smart enough, one might think, to explain why we have not seen any increase in cloud cover over the last century or so.
PS: let's take a fixed parcel of air containing a fixed amount of water vapor. What happens to its relative humidity as we raise its temperature?
PPS: if equilibrium condition is 100% RH, why is the vapor pressure of water temperature dependent?
A good discussion of this issue may be found at 47. Relative humidity over the oceans – Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
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