The stratospheric steam regulates the global warming

[fille des bois]

I read this little article in "le monde" yesterday

The steam is a powerful greehouse gas, its recent??? decrease could explain the slowing down of the global warming.

The measures and the models suggest that the drying out of 10% of the low statosphere is responsible of 15% of the slowing down of the global warming
and the conclusion is : all of this remains mysterious !!! ;)

 

[Laura]

Ummm... what article? Link?

 

[fille des bois]

this article comes from "science' of 29 january

 

[Galaxia2002]

Here is the abstract:

Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global Warming
Susan Solomon,1 Karen Rosenlof,1 Robert Portmann,1 John Daniel,1 Sean Davis,1,2 Todd Sanford,1,2 Gian-Kasper Plattner3

Stratospheric water vapor concentrations decreased by about 10% after the year 2000. Here, we show that this acted to slow the rate of increase in global surface temperature over 2000 to 2009 by about 25% compared to that which would have occurred due only to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. More limited data suggest that stratospheric water vapor probably increased between 1980 and 2000, which would have enhanced the decadal rate of surface warming during the 1990s by about 30% compared to estimates neglecting this change. These findings show that stratospheric water vapor represents an important driver of decadal global surface climate change.

1 NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, USA.
2 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
3 Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.

This fits with what we know that water is the principal greenhouse gas, not CO2.

 

[Renaissance]

There's this article that was posted on Sott a couple of days ago:

Damage Control: NOAA claims water vapor slowed recent 'global warming trend'

NOAA seems to be doing some back peddling to save face after Climategate and Glaciergate, while NASA is falling on it's face trying to save 'global warming'. Both have been manipulating data for years. See also:

Climategate Redux: NASA and NOAA have been falsifying climate reports for years