Originally Posted by
Flytolive
True, because water vapor contributes as much as 70% of the greenhouse effect, but CO2 is the second biggest contributor and potentially the most controllable. Nice try though.
No, not water vapor, the main contributor is fluorine type gases. CO2 warming is caused by secondary factors, e.g. water vapor has extended suspension in a higher CO2 concentrated gas. This relationship is poorly understood by scientists. When they say there is a consensus on CC, they are
ONLY referring to:
1. it is happening at a historically fast rate.
2. it is caused by man made activity.
The rest is environmental modeling to determine the causes, and solutions. Models with a CO2 bias are off by 10+ standard deviations, models factoring the other gases are dead on.