How water reduces the affect of CO2 global warming

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If you look at CO2, it is a linear molecule O=C=O, which can store and reflect energy in the atmosphere by its bending, vibration and rotation. It has been shown to have a significant impact on global warming.

 

If we react CO2 with H2O we get H2CO3 or carbonic acid. One may notice that the former linear CO2 will change it bond angle from 180 to 120 degrees when it reacts with water and forms carbonic acid. As such, its degrees of freedom for storing energy is different. It can no longer rotate except as part of H2CO3, while it vibrational and bending energy levels are now also different and work in conjunction with the H2O aspect. The CO2 will now share its stored energy with the H2O.

 

As such, because there is always water in the atmosphere, sticky but reversible collisions between CO2 and H2O will alter the time average energy storing/reflective capacity of CO2 tranferring energy to H2O. The meta-stable formation of H2CO3 will be exothermic. The reversal energy needed to reform CO2 and H2O goes into both entitiies leaving CO2 with less energy than it started with. The H2O can get rid of its higher energy when it forms clouds and condenses into rain.

 

As the amount of CO2 increases, the warming causes more water in the atmosphere due to the increased ease of evaporation. This will reduce the affective heating storing capacity of the average CO2 molecule since the concentration of water will rise faster than the CO2 concentration.