From USA Today, we get a teachable moment.
The headline reads “Weekend snow sets stage for polar vortex’s icy return”
“Snow is forecast to spread across the nation’s northern tier this weekend and as far east as Maine by Monday, setting the stage for another blast of bitterly cold air next week that could send temperatures plunging as far south as Atlanta.
As serious winter weather settles in, the anticipation of harsh cold marks the reappearance of the Polar Vortex, like the one that infamously slammed the U.S. in January 2014.
The Polar Vortex is a large area of cold air high up in the atmosphere that normally lives over the poles but can dip down into North America from time to time thanks to a meandering jet stream.”
Here is living proof that SCOTUS got it wrong in Massachusetts v. EPA and that what you think you know about Global Climate Change is wrong. The dominant greenhouse gas is water vapor, not CO2.
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Here is a graph showing the relative atmospheric transmission of various gases. You will see water transmits much less radiation than CO2 over the whole spectrum and this is particularly true the shorter the wavelength (i.e. the further left on the graph). Shorter wavelengths have more energy. Also, note that while the concentration of CO2 is about 400 part per million, on average water is about 1% or 10,000 ppm. There is vastly more water vapor than CO2 in the atmosphere.
