Water vapor is Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas.

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[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Clouds reflect sunlight and this cools the planet.

[–]Questionable 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

But u/ActuallyNot, does not recognize clouds as containing water vapor, but only water droplets, using this fact to never acknowledge that vapor condenses into clouds or their cooling affect, or the rain cycle. Nor that hot air rises, releasing it's heat as it condenses. As the feedback loop is dangerous, as it can be made to sounds dangerous. Trust the science. /s

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/cloud-climate/

And we need to be told when the temperature changes one degree.

https://saidit.net/s/environment/comments/c9uo/how_to_know_when_the_world_has_passed_15c_of/

You see, we are too dumb to know when we are in danger and we must trust the experts. /s

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But u/ActuallyNot, does not recognize clouds as containing water vapor, but only water droplets,

Or ice crystals.

using this fact to never acknowledge that vapor condenses into clouds or their cooling affect, or the rain cycle

That's not true. Water droplets and/or ice crystals in clouds are in equilibrium with the water vapor.

Clouds do have a cooling effect, but it's not clear that the impact of global warming on clouds increases or decreases that impact.

Observational evidence is that cloud feedback is positive.

(Draft version of the full paper)