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Article: Water Vapor May Warm Earth Less Than Some Models Predict.
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- March 15, 2004
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Byline: University of Maryland, College Park
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Some climate forecasts may be overestimating future increases in global temperature because they are based on an overestimate of the amount of water vapor the will enter the atmosphere as the Earth warms. That is the new finding of a study by researchers at the University of Maryland, NASA, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Greenhouse gases, of which water vapor is the most significant, trap heat and warm the Earth. This warming increases evaporation from the oceans, thus putting more water vapor into the atmosphere. The rise in water vapor in turn ...