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Venus' Stop/Start History Highlighted By Probe
An anonymous reader writes "Science Daily reports on scientific findings from the ESA's Venus Express probe. The device, which is even now orbiting Earth's sister planet, is feeding back data hinting at Venus' origins. Initially, the probe has found, the planet evolved far too quickly. As a result Venus' liquid oceans were boiled away. With those gone, the planet's development stalled and ceased. 'They may have started out looking very much the same,' said Professor Taylor, 'but increasingly we have evidence that Venus lost most of its water and Earth lost most of its atmospheric carbon dioxide ... The interesting thing is that the physics is the same in both cases. The great achievement of Venus Express is that it is putting the climatic behaviour of both planets into a common framework of understanding.'"
Haven't you heard, global warming stopped. Now it is called climate change to keep the funding going.
But temps haven't risen in the last 10 years or so from what what I have been told. They fixed it by signing the Kyoto treaty in 1998 even though no one has implemented it yet. Signing the thing was enough. They expect 2008 to be cooler and I have read in some slanted places that it will continue to drop all the temperature gains we seen by the increased Co2 without loosing or removing the Co2. It is amazing what we can do with ink.
When they nail you to a position. In the 70s it was Global Cooling, then they switched to Global Warming when that didn't pan out, and now they're going with Climate Change so they're right no matter what, and the funding keeps coming in and the politicians keep gaining power.
Funding? What? People like to use oil company funding as a derogatory. They forget that politicians vested in Climate Change also provide pro-CC funding from their vast financial resources (us).
For me, the final blow to credibility is that the solutions often seem to involve massive amounts of money going from rich countries to poor ones, one big welfare scheme. It reminds me of the old Bloom County missile defense system, wrap a trillion dollar bills around the planet.