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planets, the article was a fount of misinformation and gross exaggeration. The obvious purpose of the article was scare us into taking increasing carbon dioxide levels seriously, following on the Fourth National that “10 percent of the U.S. economy could evaporate by 2100” due to climate change, the Venusian silliness begins: > world is Venus, Earth’s “evil twin,” which was once nice > enough until something went wrong and the atmosphere began trapping hospitable planet until it reached some tipping point and a runaway greenhouse effect ensued. This kind of prose might be good for science fiction, but it does a disservice to the facts. While it is true that the surface of Venus has a temperature around 860 deg. F., the fact is that VENUS HAS OVER 220,000 TIMES AS MUCH CO2 By way of comparison, since the Industrial Revolution started, it is widely believed we are now approaching 1.5 times as much atmospheric 220,000x versus 1.5x. Do you see the grotesqueness of comparing Venus to Earth? If we used distances to make the comparison, and 1.5x was 1.5 inches, then 220,000x would be 2.3 miles! Imagine that the water level in the ocean increased by 0.5 inches, and people were trying to scare you about what might happen if it goes up another half an inch in the next To make matters worse, the article then builds upon this Venus-is-so-much-like-Earth theme with the supposed reason why Venus > Much of the appeal of Venus comes from the fact that despite its > horrifying modern appearance, it’s actually really similar to > Earth. “Picture a planet that’s just like Earth but it’s a > little hotter because it’s a little closer to the sun and that > would be Venus,” David Grinspoon, a planetary scientist and > astrobiologist at the Planetary Science Institute, told Space.com. not for its extreme greenhouse effect, its surface temperature would actually average colder than the Earth.