If skew-T diagrams of weather balloon soundings don’t demonstrate any altering of cooling trajectory as the balloon passes from drier air to much moister air, that implies that the inhibition of cooling by IR gases absorbing/scattering IR isn’t happening. Yes, absorption and scattering happen, but in themselves they don’t affect temperature. Cooling follows the trajectory of the lapse rate adiabates, which have no terms for radiative effects.

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