- actually, you're wrong. "runaway greenhouse" is caused by CO2 being
released from rocks: to quote
http://www.astronomynotes.com/solarsys/s9.htm

Runaway Greenhouse
Venus was originally cooler than what it is now and it had a greater
abundance of water several billion years ago. Also, most of its carbon
dioxide was locked up in the rocks. Through a process called a runaway
greenhouse, Venus heated up to its present blistering hot level.
Because Venus was slightly closer to the Sun than the Earth, its water
never liquified and remained in the atmosphere to start the greenhouse
heating. As Venus heated up, some of the carbon dioxide in the rocks
was ``baked out.'' The increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide enhanced
the greenhouse heating. That baked more carbon dioxide out of the
rocks (as well as any water) and a runaway feedback loop process
occurred. This feedback loop occurred several billion years ago so
Venus has been very hot for several billion years. The water Venus
originally had is now gone because of a process called dissociation.



"katysails" wrote in message ...
Neal, you sorry piece of pig butt, what do you think casues the green
house effect? Emmissions....from volcanoes....that spew chemicals into
the atmosphere creating greenhouse effeect....what a dope...stick to
interior decorating....