atmospheric

Thanks to Ari Jokimaki's site, I ran across this recently published study: The role of atmospheric nuclear explosions on the stagnation of global warming in the mid 20th century - http://www.citeulike.org/article/8682491 I realize that many of the involved scientists and advocates were...

The atmospheric pressure on Venus is 90 times that of Earth. Why? Venus and Earth are about the same size and mass. Venus is 82% of an Earth's mass and 86% of an Earth's volume. One expects (correctly) that the gravitational potential at the surface of both planets to be about the same. No help...

interesting article. i had heard about diseases travelling via dust storms, but the rest was new to me. anyone have an opinion about the viablity of the hypotheses that are mentioned?