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Climate change on Venus

Nature volume 412, pages 36–37 (2001)Cite this article

Earth's climate has changed significantly over the past several million years. New theoretical work suggests that the climate of our nearest neighbour, Venus, may have also changed on similar timescales.

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Figure 1: Key chemical and physical processes controlling the climate of Venus over long timescales1,2,3,4,5.

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