re: garbage info from a long-out-of-it non-climatologist
I couldn't have offered you the bet before 2005, and I believe 2006 was warmer than 2005 (not that year to year variation matters that much).
You must think my bet is somehow unfair to my opponent in betting that temps will go up at least 75% as fast the IPCC predicts over 10, 15, and 20 years, but it's hard to square that will all the denialist stuff you're constantly linking to, like at the start of this thread.
As for you're not being aware of water vapor being more concentrated near the first 30' of the atmospheric column, I suggest you consider where the source of water vapor is located.
Reading some more of the article and elsewhere, though, I will concede the man you quoted could be regarded as a retired climatologist.