The truth about Venus
The planet is often cited by climate change activists as a warning of what can happen when a greenhouse effect gets totally out of hand, but it’s far stranger than that. We could burn everything combustible we’ve got a hundred times over and wouldn’t come close to turning Earth into another Venus.
Simply put, we don’t understand the place. And not understanding it means that we really know a lot less about the evolution of the solar system than we’d like to, including planets like our own.
We have no idea if Venus has active volcanoes, let alone the plate tectonics that drive Earth’s geology and life cycle. Its rotation and atmosphere defy explanation. Its global cloud cover means that we can map its surface features only by radar. We need to know why Venus is so different, simply because we do. It matters not whether there is any practical imperative; we have known nothing about it since we evolved from amoebas, yet here we are. But not knowing is not good enough.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/nasa-discovery-program-is-set-to-probe-venus-neptune-or-jupiter/news-story/642108f0bc0c3df4aada37de63b62151
