garabik comments on Open Thread, Aug. 1 - Aug 7. 2016 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Elo 01 August 2016 12:12AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (81)

Sort By: Best

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: garabik 07 August 2016 08:02:11AM 0 points [-]

There is also the little issue of Venus receiving about twice the insolation than Earth....

Comment author: turchin 09 August 2016 11:34:37AM * 0 points [-]

But Venus albedo is 0.75, while Earth's is 0.3. So Venus gets less solar energy than Earth, because of very white upper cloud cover http://www.universetoday.com/36833/albedo-of-venus/