New answers tagged greenhouse-gases
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We'll take an example of Venus as a poster child for runaway greenhouse effect.
First of all, let's talk of day/night changes. At the surface level there is little to no change as Venus has an albedo of 0.77, i.e. its atmosphere reflects back 77% of light. Compare this to Earth's albedo of 0.3. So in the overall energy balance of Venusian atmosphere the ...
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