WEF science: Venus was once Earth-like until climate change
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
From the Science Experts at the WEF.
Really.
I’m being serious, this is an *actual* Science Article from the WEF.
Really.
< sigh >
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“Venus was once Earth-like, but climate change made it uninhabitable”
⚫ The planet Venus once likely had surface temperatures similar to present-day Earth, recent modelling has revealed.
⚫ It probably also had oceans, rain, perhaps snow, maybe continents and plate tectonics.
⚫ But Venus’s climate was permanently altered when catastrophic volcanic eruptions released vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
⚫ Could Venus’s fate hold stark lessons for us here on Earth?
… Venus once likely had an Earth-like climate. According to recent climate modelling, for much of its history Venus had surface temperatures similar to present day Earth.
It likely also had oceans, rain, perhaps snow, maybe continents and plate tectonics, and even more speculatively, perhaps even surface life.
Less than one billion years ago, the climate dramatically changed due to a runaway greenhouse effect.
It can be speculated that an intensive period of volcanism pumped enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to cause this great climate change event that evaporated the oceans and caused the end of the water cycle. …”
Here’s the WEF article in full, for your Science Enlightenment,
you Science HEATHENS :
weforum.org ↗