Comment by croes
6 months ago
All the small things that affect the climate pile up.
> Water evaporates constantly in from soil, plants, and water bodies - most notably from the ocean itself, which is how ~babby~ precipitation is formed.
And CO2 is constantly released too. The point are the additional released greenhouse gases
BTW we kind of boycott sunlight, it’s called sunscreen
That's really doesn't apply to water vapor where the natural evaporation is many orders if magnitude grater than what were dealing with, and is a required part of the natural cycle to replenish water reservoirs, with the natural cycle being incredibly short and increased evaporation shortening that cycle.
The issue with greenhouse gasses is their potent impact combined with long lifetime. CO2 has to be slowly absorbed by e.g. plants, and adding more does not speed up the process unlike for water vapor.
You also cannot evaporate past 100% relative humidity, an amount of water saturation that naturally occurs. This is unlike gas emissions, where the sky is the limit.
> BTW we kind of boycott sunlight, it’s called sunscreen
Unless you're applying it to the sun, that's not boycotting sunlight, it's adapting to it. Not to mention that your skin requires sunlight, sunscreen just avoids overexposure.