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Originally Posted by Startrek
.........Maybe he’s pushed it a little to far and has lost the plot.
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You think?
If memory serves, Mercury has 4x the solar flux of Venus, but has no atmosphere, has no greenhouse warming and is colder than Venus.
The Russian Venusian landers
all cooked within minutes of touching down...
....protection from 470 degrees C and the equivalent pressure of 3000 feet below the sea doesn't last long.
Runaway greenhouse on our home planet would be scary indeed.