From: pianoforte109@yahoo.com   
      
   On 1/21/24 10:56 AM, ScottW wrote:   
   > The Clausius-Clapeyron relationship has been a fundamental principle   
   > in climate science, suggesting that with every 1°C rise in   
   > temperature, atmospheric moisture should increase by about 7%.   
   >   
   > Surprisingly, the research found that over dry and semi-arid regions,   
   > moisture levels have remained constant or even declined, as observed   
   > in the Southwestern United States.   
   >   
   > "This is contrary to all climate model simulations in which it rises   
   > at a rate close to theoretical expectations, even over dry regions,"   
   > the authors wrote in the new paper. (end snip)   
   >   
   > You may note that water vapor is a "green house" gas and this lack in   
   > the rise with rising temps is an issue with current climate   
   > projections.   
      
   “It is a really tricky problem to solve, because we don't have global   
   observations of all the processes that matter to tell us about how water   
   is being transferred from the land surface to the atmosphere," [Simpson]   
   said.  "But we absolutely need to figure out what's going wrong because   
   the situation is not what we expected and could have very serious   
   implications for the future.”   
      
   Paper found here:   
      
   https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2302480120#:~   
      
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