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Originally Posted by aerohead

One thing that got my attention was,I think,in Too Smart For Our Own Good,by Dilworth.
If you took all the hydrocarbons we burned each year,it was equivalent to burning down all the Earth's forest cover,15-Times,each year.
It's straightforward to calculate the volume of the troposphere,resolved into a sphere,at standard temp and pressure,then compare that to the volume of Earth.
When you compare the two together it'll blow your mind when you actually see how tiny our atmosphere is.
And Venus gives us a little insight into what carbon dioxide can do to a planets atmosphere.844-degees F,day and night,with 200-mph winds.Sweet!

...and being roughly 25.8 million miles closer to Sol counts, too.