The Diner Troll continues to return, and as usual he is tolerated until he gets insulting.  That is pretty much getting to be right away as things are going.

TDOS has been told not to refer to the Diner membership as three old geriatrics several times.

TDOS You forget I am the Übermensch who pays the bills, and who writes the code.  It is sort of like I own the place.  RE and I make the rules.

QuotePlot the relationship between x:y (1:7) and x1:y1 (2:14) and try not to get a straight line. Avoid admitting as best you can that this is EXACTLY why only one of us is still working at our professional peak while the other "elderly gentlemen" are left with being happily stoned stupid or a ward of the state.

TDOS I could delete your post for that, and give you another three days off.  <-----  And I just did.

For someone who is thousands of miles away you sure know a lot about me.  Your clairvoyance is beyond belief.  And still working at your professional peak implies that you are a professional troll because otherwise you would not be arguing with a former engineer with a Masters Degree about an exponential that is piecewise linear with a slope of 7 around the data point of interest.  You would be too busy at your real job, or you must hate your real job with a passion to bother coming here where you only get suspended over and over again for being rude and insulting.

*  I am not feeding the troll.  I just suspended him for three more days.  AGAIN


The statement

QuoteFor every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold ~7% more water vapor—like a sponge expanding

is a good analogy that captures the essence of a fundamental physical principle governed by the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.

The "7% for every 1°C" rule (sometimes cited as 6-7%) is an empirical observation derived from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. When you plug in the relevant physical constants for water (like the latent heat of vaporization) and consider typical atmospheric temperatures, the equation shows that saturation vapor pressure indeed increases by roughly this percentage for each degree Celsius of warming.