re: #111 goddamnedfrank

Nope, it’s the greenhouse effect.

Venus is hit with approximately twice the solar irradiance, but it reflects 80% of what hits it, vs. the Earth which only reflects 30%. That’s why everything else being equal Venus should actually be colder than Earth. However the greenhouse effect is much greater, because of the massively greater concentration of CO2 and because of the much greater atmospheric pressure (90 ATM at the surface) which magnifies this further through the ideal gas law (PV=nRT).

I quit.