Greenhouse effect on Venus

[Monte Goulding]

Hey... this is cool ;-) (I'm here all week folds!)

So I think this thing is telling me that the greenhouse gasses are heating 
up Venus by 700F? Ouch.

Would be nice to have a converter on this thing so it can switch to Celsius 
mode.

Cheers

Monte


> It is worthwhile to examine what effect greenhouse gases have on the 
> temperature of other planets besides Earth. It turns out that Venus is 
> very hot, about 832 degrees Fahrenheit. But how much of this due to 
> greenhouse gases and how much to the fact that it is closer to the Sun?
>
> To neutralize the proximity effect I have introduced a comparison 
> standard, a Blackbody planet. In the stack below it is possible to place 
> this imaginary planet anywhere in the (near) solar system and observe its 
> temperature, the steady state temperature when the incident solar 
> radiation absorbed by the black body is balanced by thermal radiation from 
> the black body, something that is easy to compute.
>
> It doesn't make any predictions for our planet (Just the astronomical 
> facts, ma'm), only that there is a frightening omen on the horizon.
>
> Possibly of some interested to the teachers on the list?
>
> To view this stack, run the following from the msg box:
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> go url "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/GreenhouseEffect.rev"
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> Jim
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