On Jan 3, 12:27 pm, Alastair <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 2, 11:52 pm, Igor Samoylenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hansen mentioned the Venus syndrome in his Bjerknes Lecture he gave at AGU
> > in December 2008:
>
> >http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/AGUBjerknes_20081217.pdf
>
> Thanks for that link :-)
>
>
>
> > What he said is this:
> > Now the danger that we face is the Venus syndrome. There is no escape from
> > the Venus Syndrome. Venus will never have oceans again.
>
> Hansen seems to believe that Venus had oceans, but that is now seeming
> unlikely. It is now thought that Earth's oceans were formed from
> impacts from Main Asteroid Belt
> Comets.http://www.solstation.com/stars/asteroid.htm
> These are icy outer asteroids which had there orbits distorted by
> Jupiter. As their orbits became more elliptical, they collided with
> Earth, which protected Venus and kept it dry.
Really? Do you think Earth ran around like a short stop and caught
them all? How the heck could little ole Earth's cross-section
(relative to the vastness of its obital cross secton) protect Venus?
> The runaway state of
> Venus's atmosphere must be due to CO2, not H2O!
>
> Cheers, Alastair.
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