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. ... current models depend heavily on undemonstrated positive feedback factors to predict high levels of warming. [1]