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Old 26-03-2011, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by space oddity View Post
The climate doomsayers say Venus is an example of runaway greenhouse. hello, Venus has a particularly thick atmosphere and is much closer to the sun, hence considerably higher solar radiation input over billions of years.
This is nonsense.

The temperature on the surface of Venus is hotter than that at Mercury, which has 4x more solar flux. Greenhouse is alive and well on Venus. To say otherwise is completely ignores well established fact.

Last edited by Peter Ward; 26-03-2011 at 10:25 AM. Reason: being less terse.
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