Global Warming

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

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/

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Why does everyone love comparing to Venus, with an atmosphere 93x more dense than ours.

You may as well compare to Mars then as well, with an atmosphere made up of 95% CO2 but an atmosphere 150x less dense than ours.

Mercury has next to nothing in the way of an atmosphere. Its atmosphere having been boiled away due to proximity to the sun.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by tlgerdes

Why does everyone love comparing to Venus, with an atmosphere 93x more dense than ours.....
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I don't think everyone does, but if they do.....

...... it's likely to make the point: runaway geeenhouse can get very nasty by making a benign planetary atmosphere both hot and dense.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

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/

I was referring to raising the temperature by 1-2K.