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...Mariner II confirmed Velikovsky’s predictions: the surface temperature of Venus is at least 800 deg F; the planet’s atmosphere is heavy and 15 miles thick; it is composed not of carbon dioxide or water, but of heavy molecules of hydrocarbons. Harper’s editor Eric Larrabee wrote: ‘Velikovsky offers evidence from numerous other sciences, in particular geology and archaeology. Breaking the barriers between disciplines, he arrives at conclusions which no discipline had reached independently.’
The fact is this: the temperatures on Venus cannot be accounted for by a mere Greenhouse Effect, the temperature is just too extreme, and the surface gets far too little sunlight. The very scenario of a visually dense layer trapping in heat over a visually clear layer as it passes light to warm the surface is wrong. The scenario does not exist. One must remember, this is the very circumstantial evidence on which Global Warming was formulated - the very reason the alternate theory was disregarded was not because it was unscientific, but because it was formulated using ancient texts that are supposed to be myth.
