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Please consider what would happen on Earth starting with an atmosphere
of Carbon dioxide mixed 50:50 with water vapour. My estimate is that the sun would visually dim very little but the whole IR band of radiation would fall by some 38%. Therefore there would be 38% less heat reaching the ground. That atmosphere would warm and convection currents would start to operate. Due to expansion of gases the rising vapour would cool at the saturated lapse rate some 5 °C/km). Soon a distillation process would begin and Earth would regain something like the current temperatures but actually cooler due to a decrease in thermal energy reaching the ground. At night the heat retention of the carbon dioxide and water vapour atmosphere would save the planet from excessive temperature fluctuations as observed on the Moon of 123°C to -238 °C. |
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