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Old 26-03-2011, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward View Post
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.
Peter.

What makes it even more compelling is that the Venus has a much higher albedo than Earth. Eighty percent of the solar flux hitting Venus is reflected back into space.
Taking this into account the effective temperature on Venus using the Stefan_Boltzmann Law should be less than Earth's.

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