Is There a Runaway Greenhouse Effect?

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NASA has an Indian Venus mission that's going to be- Maybe where that came from. We generally don't talk about an ancient civilization on Venus, although one has to admit that we have not explored the planet well enough to rule that out. But clearly Venus does have a runaway greenhouse effect. And they're just worried. maybe Venus has knobs that got turned. Had it become what it is, and we should look at those very same knobs here on Earth.

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