You simply say that you don't believe the greenhouse effect can be responsible for
Venusian temperatures and move on — despite the fact that some very, very fine scientific minds thought quite differently, and had the math to prove it.
Second, robotic probes have measured Venus» atmosphere to be about 97 % CO2, and we can see from the image above (click for a larger version) that the absorption spectrum for CO2 (at Earth temperature and pressure —
Venusian temperature and pressure increases the width of the absorption bands, making CO2 a stronger absorber in Venus» atmosphere than in Earth's) strongly overlaps the peak emission spectrum of Venus» surface.
The huge pressure at the surface is where we observe the high
Venusian temperature.
Not exact matches
Prospects for
Venusian life have been dismissed because of harsh conditions on the planet's surface: there is no water,
temperatures reach 477 °C and the atmospheric pressure is 92 times that on Earth's surface.
The oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will dry out as water vapor leaks into space, and
temperatures will soar past 700 degrees Fahrenheit, all of which will transform our planet into a
Venusian hell - scape choked with thick clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxide.
Regarding the search for extraterrestrial life, the one major habitable zone in the inner solar system that has not been sampled at all is the
Venusian cloud layer, which in terms of
temperature, pressure and gravity is the most Earthlike extraterrestrial environment in the solar system.
Also notice that the
Venusian surface
temperature is near constant day and night - diurnal (daily)
temperature change is about zero.
The
temperature difference between the
Venusian day and night is quite small even though the
Venusian day is over a 100 Earth days in length.
SummaryFor two years beginning in 2013, a large team led by Sanjay Limaye set out to combine and compare the following:
Venusian atmospheric data collected by probes in the 1970s and 1980s (used to create the Venus International Reference Atmosphere, or VIRA) Venus Express data on the vertical and horizontal structure of the atmosphereEarth - based observations of the upper atmosphere
temperature structure of Venus made since VIRAFigure 1a: Vertical coverage of post-VIRA atmospheric structure experi....
Once compressed, the warm fluid will either cool to ambient
temperature (consider a SCUBA diver's air tank or a CO2 fire extinguisher) or, remain warm if there is an external source of energy (the
Venusian atmosphere heated by the Sun).
It goes on to assert that any point in the
Venusian atmosphere at the same pressure as the Earth's would be at the same
temperature with appropriate adjustment for the relative power received from the sun.
Sagan had proposed very high
Venusian surface
temperatures, and ascribed them to an ultra-strong greenhouse effect on the basis of careful calculations using all that was then known.
This same relationship seems to hold all throughout the
Venusian atmosphere, so when you go to OTHER altitudes on Venus where the pressures are the same as on Earth, you see
temperature differences in the same ratio, 1.176 (within a reasonable margin of error).