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Old 31-03-2011, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller View Post
Well, if the oceans and air get warmer there will be more evaporation. And what goes up ......
Well...not really.

Mercury.... 4x more solar flux than Venus. Temperature... about 530K

Venus. 25% the solar flux of Mercury, but with a really dense CO2-enriched atmosphere. Temperature? about 730K!

Earth? TBA

There is a web write-up on the basic Physics here.

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/gl...nergy_balance/
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