Everyone should have listened to Velikovsky. The man was amazing; extremely well educated and an awe-inspiring original thinker.
http://www.archive.org/stream/earthupheaval010880mbp/earthupheaval010880mbp_djvu.txt
full text of ‘Earth in Upheaval’
Velikovsky archive link:
When the surface temperatures of Venus were discovered there should have been a line of scientists five miles long at Velikovsky’s door waiting to apologize. The idea that any sort of a greenhouse effect could cause 1000F temperatures on a planet where no light even gets through the cloud layers is beyond ludicrous.