I find this particularly interesting.


"The indirect evidence for this is that water vapour over oceans worldwide has increased by about two percent since 1988."


The evaporation of water produces a cooling effect in the atmosphere, but not in the water, apparently.
It says in ´UNDERSTANDING LATENT HEAT´:

"When water undergoes a phase change (a change from solid, liquid or gas to another phase) the temperature of the H20 stays at the same temperature. Why? Energy is being used to either weaken the hydrogen bonds between H20 molecules or energy is being taken away from the H20 which tightens the hydrogen bonds."

[link to www.theweatherprediction.com]

I would have thought that the increased evaporation might have masked the degree of ocean warming, but apparently not, for it says in the reference that the temperature of the water remains unchanged with evaporation, but that it´s the surrounding air which surrenders its heat to the water molecules.

So it is then that the air temperature, which reflects global warming, is being masked by the increased water vapor in the air.


Which feeds into this link.

"On one hand, analyses of thermometer measurements of near-surface global (land and sea) air temperatures suggest the planet has been warming in recent decades. But satellite measurements of the planet´s lower atmospheric temperature show no warming from 1979 to 1998•."

The Schumann Resonances and Human Psychobiology
[link to www.nexusmagazine.com]

•The lower atmosphere unchanged (or cooling) trend noticed between 1979 to 1998, modified by a correction factor:

"the older radiosonde instruments used in the 1970´s were not as well shielded from sunlight as more recent models. What this means as that older radiosondes showed warmer temperature readings during the day because they were warmed by sunlight.

Nowadays, radiosondes are better insulated against the effects of sunlight, but if analyzed together with the old data—which showed temperatures that were actually warmer than they really were—the overall effect looked like the troposphere was cooling.

The discrepancy between surface and atmospheric measurements has been used by for years by skeptics who dispute claims of global warming.

´Now we´re learning that the disconnect is more apparent than real,´.."

Key claim against global warming evaporates, Satellite and weather balloon data based on faulty analyses, studies find
[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]

Is the air temperature being buffered by the increased water vapor in the air over oceans, and is global warming actually MORE SEVERE than what we think?