No, because water vapor is a much more powerful greenhouse "gas" than is
CO2. Cloud altitude and type is also very important to what happens
with the re-radiated infra-red after absorption of sunlight. And,
depending on what you believe about the solar wind's effect on cosmic
rays the solar wind may have a very strong influence on terrestrial
cloud formation and amplify the effect of assumed solar forcing. (but
that's terribly controversial and certainly not in any model).
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Clouds are weather rather than climate, surely?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 04/02/2010, at 9:18 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Silly boy! Don't you realize that "weather" is not "climate"? That's
>> why we can project 100 years into the future with confidence! Clouds
>> you say? Um, no we don't do clouds. They're too difficult to model.
>> But it doesn't matter. Trust us. :-)
>
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