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To find a ludicrous parallel? Isaac Send a noteboard - 19/11/2010 04:38:12 PM
Sometimes the similarities between the physical composition of Earth and Venus, combined with the radically different atmospheric CO2 and SO2 concentrations, make me think our sisters only purpose is to provide a cautionary tale of how the mighty can fall.


Venus is hot from greenhouse effects, but it gets twice the sunlight and it's 'daytime' last a couple of months, it has no magnetic field of note either. Earth couldn't get that hot even if our entire atmosphere was CO2, because we get way less light and our day is 24 - not 2400 - hours long. Nor could it happen, by best estimates, there is literally not enough coal and oil in the world to do such a thing, and at the increased temperature and rainfall such initial warming would bring, plant life would be able to chew up the increased CO2 into plant matter at a far faster rate. The joke on biofuels, that I always like, is that they will eventually become cost effective as the increase in CO2 will let us grow more of it on the same amount of land till eventually that increase growth curve intersects with the rarity increase from fossil fuels.

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So, I think I found a way to actually prove if Global Warming is happening. - 19/11/2010 01:22:49 AM 653 Views
The idea that CO2 in the atmosphere holds in heat is not in dispute - 19/11/2010 02:13:02 AM 522 Views
One need look no further than Venus. - 19/11/2010 03:22:50 PM 465 Views
To find a ludicrous parallel? - 19/11/2010 04:38:12 PM 418 Views
Not THAT ludicrous, just more extreme. - 19/11/2010 05:29:23 PM 449 Views
Re: Not THAT ludicrous, just more extreme. (edit) - 19/11/2010 07:25:21 PM 401 Views
Re: Not THAT ludicrous, just more extreme. (edit) - 22/11/2010 01:47:15 AM 1067 Views
There are limits as to how much some of this stuff can be simplified - 22/11/2010 04:27:10 AM 607 Views
With apologies for the delay. - 03/12/2010 03:54:26 AM 581 Views
I hate computers sometimes - 03/12/2010 05:10:36 PM 511 Views
Re: - 19/11/2010 02:41:29 AM 508 Views
Entirely agree - 19/11/2010 08:42:51 AM 391 Views
Wouldn't prove anything - and your experiment is very flawed - 19/11/2010 10:57:41 AM 421 Views

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