Thread: Could a 1% decrease in water vapor change the climate?

The average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere varies, but it works out to maybe 1% by volume. If all the water vapor were removed (a 100% decrease by my math, or a 1% decrease by Jellomath), do you think such a relatively small amount would make a difference to the climate?

[One answer to this was given in "Relative Humidity of the Atmosphere" by Pierrehumbert, Brogniez and Roca in the book "The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere--the results they present show the Earth turning into a giant snowball in about 8 years]
Ben L: It's not just water vapor that was invented by liberals, apparently math is a socialist plot too.

Go tell it to China.. the world's worst contributor to man-made greenhouse gases.

(wonder why Al Gore couldn't bring that up?)

Obviously it would! 1% is enough to offset the delicate balance of mother earth. Global warming will increase for every 1% too. The planet is ruined but we have a hope in the White House!!! Make Obama keep his promises to attack those that kill the planet!!!!!!

Of course not. Water vapor is a concept invented by liberals.

If I told you my dollar bills or pepperoni slices could somehow turn invisible and become a part of the atmosphere, would you believe me? So why would you believe me about liquid water?

Human made Global Warming is a hoax.

Of course it would. It would decrease temperatures about 30 to 31 degrees of the 33 total or 90 to 95% of the warming caused by greenhouse warming. That is of course fortunately impossible. A better question would be how much warming would you get by doubling the concentration of water. It probably wouldn't be another 30 degrees and computer models would be very unlikely to model that accurately either.
http://brneurosci.org/co2.html
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton_papers/greenhouse_warming_what_greenhouse_warming_.html