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re: I am mightily chocked...It seems Greenland's icecaps are not melting due to CO2.

"CO2 in the atmosphere of Venus is 2200 times more abundant than in our atmosphere.
Even Mars has about FOUR - FIVE times as much CO2 in its atmosphere than our atmosphere has."

At first glance, I doubt these numbers. It seems Venus has more and Mars has less.

Let's see, if Earth's atmosphere was 100% CO2 that would mean that there was 2631.579 times more CO2 [if global atmosphere has 380 ppm CO2- if you times 380 times 2631.579 you get close to 1 million].
Now, Venus has about 96% of it's atmosphere being CO2 and it's a bit smaller planet, but instead 1 atm of pressure, Venus has about 92 atm of pressure. One way to look at this is that Venus has lower gravity: 8.87 m/sec^2 [as compared to Earth's 9.78 m/sec^2] yet it's atmosphere weighs 92 times more than Earth's. I would guess that Venus would be closer to 10,000 times more abundant than compared to 2200 times more [though perhaps a better guess would it's closer to 22,000 times than 10,000 times].

And I once upon time, roughly calculated the comparison of Earth's CO2 and Mars' and think it close to being the same- it might be twice as much, but I don't believe it is 4 or 5 times as much.

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