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> It's more likely to turn into a Venus.

I've always had the feeling that there are people out there worrying about this, but you're the first one I've seen actually admit to it.

The idea is much too ridiculous to even mention. The atmosphere of Venus contains roughly four times the amount of nitrogen as the atmosphere of Earth. You may recall that the atmosphere of Earth is ~80% nitrogen.

The atmosphere of Venus is under 4% nitrogen and over 96% carbon dioxide. The total mass of Venus' atmosphere is about 100 times that of Earth's.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus )

No, the Earth cannot turn into a Venus.



Now imagine if all the carbon on our biosphere combines with all the oxygen in what was the ocean before it boiled away and all its hydrogen was lost to solar wind.

I'm not sure it'd be exactly like Venus (we have a magnetosphere, at least) but I am sure it'd be very bad.


You don't think having a ground temperature above the boiling point of water would cause any problems other than the release of oxygen from the ocean? How would you get to that point?


Of course, we'd be long dead before that. There's plenty methane in the ocean to drive up temperatures before it combines with atmospheric oxygen (driving them up a little bit further in the process).


Things like the mass hysteria with CO2 are just surreal to anyone with a basic understanding of atmospheric and climate science. It really messes with your trust in public consensus.




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