Water Vapor is the MAJOR GREENHOUSE GAS

Water vapour as a major greenhouse gas

 

Joe Neubarth, via Facebook

I can tell the WORLD over and over again that Water Vapor is the MAJOR GREENHOUSE GAS. Unfortunately, most of the public has only heard about Carbon Dioxide and can not name the other Greenhouse Gases. The one that is most deadly is Water Vapor because it is 75% of Global Heating. CO2 is about ten percent. CO2 is famous because it upset a beautiful balance in nature that had allowed humans to develop on this planet and create civilizations in the past 10,000 years of the five Billion years this planet has been going around the sun.

Ha! Imagine that! Planet Earth has been here 5 Billion Years and in just the last 10 Thousand years man has set out to destroy it. Makes you wonder if our species is worthy of life?

As we approach 16 C Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST), all HELL is going to break loose. We can clearly see it in all of the Interglacials. What happens in those Abrupt Peaks and Crashes is totally independent of the Milankovich Cycles that do not cause Abrupt Heating and Abrupt Cooling, as those cycles do things gradually over a thousand years or more.

As we know now, the "Cooling Cycle" of the Milankovitch Cycle should have us deep in an Ice Age. Unfortunately, the Greenhouse gases have held off the Global Ice Age Cooling and are now commanding Abrupt Global Heating.

What we have seen happen in the middle of the past four large Interglacials is exactly what we are going to see in the near future for our civilization. A sudden rise and a sudden fall are going to be driven by the effects of a rapid increase in water vapor and cloud cover in the atmosphere.

WE have between ZERO and FOUR PERCENT Water Vapor in our atmosphere right now. The average is about 2 percent. As the planet continues to warm that can go up to above 3% or more for total water vapor in the atmosphere and that addition of water vapor will be sudden and consistent with a sudden heat rise.

ONE DRIVES THE OTHER AND THE OTHER DRIVES THE ONE.

That will kill most of us on the planet from Heat Stroke and Starvation as you can NOT grow crops above 104 degrees Fahrenheit and with the recent warming, most of our farmland is already seeing 104 degrees and higher. Higher temperatures result in crop death. Most of them just lay down in the fields and die.

The oceans are way overheated already and they are warming the atmosphere and as the atmosphere warms it accepts more water vapor that will cause an abrupt heating transient that will take Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) up to 17 degrees C or 18 degrees C on the chart below. That is just 2 to 3 degrees Celsius warmer than we are right now (15 C GAST) but those first two degrees are going to cause a lot of death.

When the condensing Water Vapor gets too heavy in the atmosphere, cumulus clouds will start to block out the sun and we will have abrupt Global Cooling that will take down to 4 C or 5 C GAST