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At least according to the Wikipedia “Greenhouse gas” article, it’s hard to measure exactly how much each gas contributes to the greenhouse effect, because different gases absorb and emit radiation at different frequencies.

Regardless of how you work out the proportions, there used to be a homeostasis, where the biological and physical processes that put greenhouse gases into the atmosphere balanced the processes that took them out. The additional CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O from human activity is upsetting that homeostasis.



Perhaps, but at least proportionally water vapor significantly outweighs carbon dioxide, even more so when you just look at man-made greenhouse gases:

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

When you take water vapor into account, man-made greenhouse gases only account for 0.28% of all the greenhouse gas in our atmosphere.




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