XPost: alt.global-warming, sci.skeptic   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/31/2025 6:03 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 12/31/25 4:19 PM, jojo wrote:   
   >   
   >> well yeah venus had runaway greenhouse, some say it was once like   
   >> earth, but the carbon kept increasing.   
   >   
   > Nobody says that, except morons.   
   >   
   > Where'd the carbon come from? Where'd the oxygen come from?   
   >   
   > Carbon "Dioxide." You need TWO oxygen atoms for every one   
   > carbon atom...   
   >   
      
   It was Venus' lack of water that contributed to the build up of CO2;   
   solar radiation would split the H2O molecules -- the hydrogen would   
   escape and the remaining oxygen (which was too heavy to escape the   
   gravity well of the planet) would combine with C.   
      
   Dawn   
      
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