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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/