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To: cogitator
Now the modelers can turn their efforts to Mars and explain how a planet with an atmosphere that's 95% CO2, manages to stay cold rather than have runaway greenhouse warming.
62 posted on 05/11/2004 2:49:11 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Now the modelers can turn their efforts to Mars and explain how a planet with an atmosphere that's 95% CO2, manages to stay cold rather than have runaway greenhouse warming.

There's also a slight matter of atmospheric density and the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. Water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas.

72 posted on 05/12/2004 7:28:56 AM PDT by cogitator
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