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Old 05-22-2008, 02:50 PM   #108 (permalink)
Lugnut
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Originally Posted by The Oyster Guy View Post
...yes, the sun *does* heat the earth, that is a given - but it isn't responsible for GW because the sun's power output doesn't significantly change. The weather isn't cloudy one day and sunny the next because the sun decided to crank it up a notch: it's almost exclusively the atmosphere (its effect on the ability of heat to transfer to/from space and earth) that's responsible for establishing the temperature of earth.
You're not very clear. Are you trying to say the sun is NOT the primary energy source behind weather?

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You can have a very humid day without clouds.
Ah but can you have clouds without humidity?!

His post suggests that there is a difference between water vapor and cloud vapor. I want to know what he thinks the difference is.
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