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1. Jared says:

   January 11, 2012 at 9:58 am

   I have a chemistry degree and I do not believe it is possible for greenhouse gases to warm the planet. The easiest of greenhouse gases to observe is water vapor, you see it in the clouds, and it varies the most of all greenhouse gases across the planet. I will compare a rainforest (high concentration of water vapor) to a desert (low concentration of water vapor). My theory is that greenhouse gases act as insulation.
   Rainforests only exist on or near the equator of our planet, where it should be the warmest, yet the highest temperatures recorded were only 94 degrees F. The temperature varies little between the seasons and between night and day, all properties of insulation.
   Now, in the Sahara desert (little water vapor, so little insulation), temperatures have reached as much as 136 degrees F. This is insanely hotter than any rainforest has ever reached, yet if greenhouse gases caused warming, then rainforests should be much much hotter than this because they are on the equator. The Sahara and other deserts have extreme temperature variation between night and day and between the seasons, unlike rainforests.

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   • paola says:

     February 21, 2012 at 6:35 pm

     hmmm … that makes sense to me.

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