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by lilsis
6209 days ago
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Good source, thanks for sharing. From the DOE... "Given the present composition of the atmosphere, the contribution to the total heating rate in the troposphere is around 5 percent from carbon dioxide and around 95 percent from water vapor." It is important to note the next sentence, however: "In the stratosphere, the contribution is about 80 percent from carbon dioxide and about 20 percent from water vapor." http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/environment/appd... (end of last paragraph) As is always the case in these matters, conflicting sources Not being an atmospheric scientist I cannot be sure but I feel like the vast majority of the atmosphere's density being in the troposphere temperature effects from the stratosphere would be negligible. |
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