[The Oyster Guy]

Originally Posted by MMDad

Wrong.

NASA - Top Story - SATELLITE FINDS WARMING "RELATIVE" TO HUMIDITY - March 15, 2004


If you were correct, more heat = more water vapor = more cooling. That would be a self regulating system that would result in no net temperature increase. But since you are not correct, that doesn't matter.

Since when did the GW deniers begin citing NASA? NASA are the folks that say anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real... OK, so I should have been more specific and said "cloud vapor", rather than just water vapor - but it all goes back to how the content of earth's atmosphere governs the flow of heat energy to/from the surface of the earth.
Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Tropical Water Vapor and Cloud Feedbacks in Climate Models: A Further Assessment Using Coupled Simulations by De-Zheng Sun, Yongqiang Yu, and Tao Zhang

And the earth (on the whole, evaluated as a system) maintains a heat equilibrium precisely because it IS a self regulating system. That's what GW is all about, fer crying out loud - the question of whether the equilibrium is shifting to a higher average temperature because the variables that influence the rates of heat transfer to/from the planet surface are changing. Go take a course in thermodynamics and heat transfer, and maybe then you'll be able to debate GW more intelligently.