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Originally Posted by D
Since we're talking about the other planets now, I should mention that no one's yet to address the point about Venus that I brought to light earlier. Here we have a planet that's several times hotter than it should be based on its relative distance from the sun. It's much hotter than Mercury, even though it's much further away. Why? Because of a "Runaway Greenhouse Effect." So much CO2 is present in the atmosphere of Venus that the Sun's energies are trapped in the atmosphere of the planet, bouncing back and forth between the top of the atmosphere and the planet's surface... heating the planet up like an oven. CO2 is the reason. CO2.
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The temperature of a planet is not based on the distance to the sun alone, its also a question of atmosphere, and its ability to contain the heat.
Look at the moon. When the sun shine on it, its much hotter than the side where there are no sun. The temperature change is from 100degrees+ at the day, to 150degrees- at night. That is due to the atmosphere, nothing else
Again, the topic is weather or not Global warming is a result of increased CO2 emissions. And again you fail to provide evidence. And you throw in half lies to support your case, which is not helping at all.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/othervi...REF30b.article
Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.
For example, Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported, "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame."
Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame. Yet according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, "Although it's tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine."