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Too bad he only told half the story. Water vapor, which has almost no change if radiative forcing because it is already in great abundance, creates more cloud cover. More cloud cover does in fact return more IR from the surface back to the surface, reducing the heat loss. Now it would in fact warm the surface if not for one little inconvenient fact he left out...“Concerns about global warming are about how human beings are altering the radiative balance,” says Reilly. “While some of the things we do change water vapor directly, they are insignificant. Increasing ghg's [greenhouse gases] through warming will increase water vapor and that is a big positive feedback [meaning: the more greenhouse gases, the more water vapor, the higher the temperature]. But the root cause are ghg's. So in talking about what is changing the climate, CHANGES IN WATER VAPOR ARE NOT A ROOT CAUSE.”
Greenhouse gases, water vapor and you | MIT Global Change
globalchange.mit.edu
As such, Glitch’s post was basically a BIG LIE based on the purposeful OMISSION of relevant information.
Increased cloud cover, decreases surface insolation.
Therefore, the same time we see a greater percentage of upward IR being returned, over a 24 hour period, the solar energy warming the surface is reduced.
Have you accounted for less sunshine to the surface?