Sentences with phrase «runaway greenhouse effect got»

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About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

The temperature at the poles of Venus (over 720K) can not be explained by any «runaway greenhouse effect» because there is less than 1W / m ^ 2 from the Sun that gets through the Venus atmosphere to the surface at the poles.

Though, ya got ta love the silly claim that Earth would have hit a runaway greenhouse effect like Venus, had it not been for some mountains forming, sucking up all the CO2.

kbray asks: How much atmosphere on Mars do you need to produce the «runaway greenhouse effect» (think Hansen) to get Venus - like temperatures?

Without convection you could get a «runaway» greenhouse effect, but since the atmosphere isn't a closed system with physical barriers, convection is negative feedback to warming.