z wrote:

[...]

maybe because you haven't showed any evidence that the other
components are responsible. are you suggesting that venus is as hot as
it is because of water vapor?

Curious. Let's thy a thought experiment.

Suppose that by the magic of usenet postings, the earth and venus were
to suddenly switch places.

Tell me what would happen on both earth and venus.

Cheers,

Rich

On Jul 16, 12:11*pm, Rich wrote:
z wrote:

[...]

maybe because you haven't showed any evidence that the other
components are responsible. are you suggesting that venus is as hot as
it is because of water vapor?

Curious. Let's thy a thought experiment.

Suppose that by the magic of usenet postings, the earth and venus were
to suddenly switch places.

Tell me what would happen on both earth and venus.

Cheers,

Rich

not much.

your turn (i really can't see where you're going with this, and i'm
interested to find out)

z wrote:
On Jul 16, 12:11 pm, Rich wrote:
z wrote:

[...]

maybe because you haven't showed any evidence that the other
components are responsible. are you suggesting that venus is as hot as
it is because of water vapor?
Curious. Let's thy a thought experiment.

Suppose that by the magic of usenet postings, the earth and venus were
to suddenly switch places.

Tell me what would happen on both earth and venus.

Cheers,

Rich

not much.

Really?

your turn (i really can't see where you're going with this, and i'm
interested to find out)

You did not give me much of an answer.

Cheers,

Rich

"Rich" wrote
Suppose that by the magic of usenet postings, the earth and venus were
to suddenly switch places.

Tell me what would happen on both earth and venus.

Venus would rapidly cool, the clouds condense onto it's surface and you
would be left with a dull planet with a shallow OC2 atmosphre.

The earth would grow hotter, clouds would form in the upper atmosphere and
over several thousand years the oceans would largely evaporate away leaving
a planet with a very thick dense atmosphere. Over several hundred million
years photodisassociation of the water in the atmosphere would remove the
water from the atmospher and the earth would become as dry as venus.

Venus currently has a surface temperature of molten lead. But it's
surface receices only 10% of the light that the earth does.

"z" wrote
your turn (i really can't see where you're going with this, and i'm
interested to find out)

He thinks that Venus would turn into a new earth.

He is an idiot.