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Originally Posted by D
I don't understand where you're disagreeing with me. You just restated what I said.
Venus is warmer than Mercury (which is a lot closer to the sun) because it has CO2 in its atmosphere, retaining the heat.
We're artificially injected billions of metric tons of CO2 into our own atmosphere every year.
1 + 1 = 2.
Where are my half lies? I'm not aware of any that I stated... nor would I knowlingly do so... so please point them out.
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Because you said
"Because of a "Runaway Greenhouse Effect."
There are no "
Runaway Greenhouse Effect." there or here for that matter.
In a book I read about AI, one of the outhers said(found it again on google):
The planet is purposive.
It behaves the way it does in order to maintain homeostasis.
It changes in ways that result in the maintenance of homeostasis.
It changes such that it reflects more or less light depending on its current temperature.
Homeostasis requires a self regulating mechanism.
The sun grows hotter, and the planet regulates its own temperature by reflecting more of the sun's heat.
To reflect this heat it has to change its reflectance characteristics.
Again we might ask, how it is to know how to do this?
Auxiliary question - what bit of it knows? What bit of you knows?
If the regulatory mechanism already exists then this simply switches into action but what if it does not - how might the planet adapt to things of which it has no knowledge - say different types of radiation?