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First in terms of context. Greenhouse gases and climate change are important issues but only one dimension of a whole host of situations brought on by the availabilty of inexpensive fossil fuels such as oil and coal. These range from acid rain, eutrophication of waters, mercury pollution, accumulating environmental and economic debt and on and on.

The work that you are citing is a clever packaging job--forwarded by discredited and contrarian scientists--in that it identifies water vapor as a greenhouse gas rather than a by-product of global warming. When it gets warmer the air can physically hold more water so it appears that the relative percentages of these other gases in much smaller. It is another example of the solution to pollution is dilution. Does not work on land and the same thing is true in air.

Setting all of that aside, why are you pushing this strained line of reasoning? Do you think that more children or old people should suffer or die from breathing ailments? Do you think that pregnant women should not be able to eat fish because of mercury contanination? Do you think that fishermen and watermen on the Chesapeake, Gulf of Mexico and coast of Maine should be pushed out of business because of SOx and NOx deposition? And do you think that our money should flow out of the US to the Middle East rather than in the pockets of American renewable energy companies? Are you saying that all of these issues are stupid?

I'd really like to know what you are laughing at.

Bob Ferris
Executive Director
Yestermorrow Design/Build School