Runaway greenhouse effect
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A runaway greenhouse effect has been predicted for Earth based on unverified computer models of untested climate theories.
Richard Lindzen wrote:
- It is still of interest to ask what we would expect a doubling of carbon dioxide to do. A large number of calculations show that if this is all that happened, we might expect a warming of from .5 to 1.2 degrees centigrade. The general consensus is that such warming would present few, if any, problems. [1]