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According to James Hansen's book Storms of My Grandchildren, Venus-level warming is far beyond anything we could achieve on Earth. Given our greater distance from the sun we don't have enough carbon to pull it off.

(The worst we could do is still enough to destroy us, though.)



Does that imply that an advanced enough Venusian life form could have triggered global warming there more easily?


Seems reasonable. Interesting thought.


Maybe we’ll find ruins.




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