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by dundarious 1739 days ago
Isn’t water vapor a significant GHG? Wouldn’t daily misting of cities augment the greenhouse effect significantly?
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Not even close.

*Total* urban area in the world was around ~3.5M km^2 in 2010[0], or 1% of total ocean area. Daily evaporation dwarves anything a couple thousands of drones can do in the morning.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.TOTL.UR.K2

Shouldn’t it be measured against human GHG activity like transport and agriculture, and not standard operation of the planet whether we exist on it or not?