Nornagest comments on 6 Tips for Productive Arguments - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 23 March 2012 05:12:25AM *  2 points [-]

Why the quotes? Water vapor's a gas. There's also liquid- and solid-phase water in the atmosphere in the form of clouds and haze, but my understanding is that that generally has a cooling effect by way of increasing albedo.

Might be missing some feedbacks there, though; I'm not a climatologist.

Comment author: Dmytry 23 March 2012 05:47:32AM *  -2 points [-]

Well, thats why quotes, because it is changing phase there. The clouds effect on climate btw is not so simple; the clouds also reflect the infrared some.