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Mar 19, 2023 at 19:40 comment added Robert Rapplean To my knowledge, water is a dependent variable in green house gas (percentage based on temperature temperature), not the other way around. This is true until either the planet hits boiling (water stops being a vapor and becomes a gas), or until it runs out of oceans. Thus, it can't start runaway greenhouse on its own. The articles I read suggest CO2 outgassing from vulcanism, if Venus used to be Earth-like.
Mar 19, 2023 at 13:14 comment added dboggs95 You're right. I was talking about the past though. I was told it started out much closer to Earth. I realize at some point it had to lose most of the water, but what I meant is that water itself was the originator of the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus.
Mar 6, 2023 at 1:25 comment added Robert Rapplean Hi! Good answer to a tough question. Venus doesn't quite work like that. All of the water on Venus would hardly fill an olympic sized swimming pool. It was done outgassing a long time ago. The entire atmosphere blows around the planet once every four Earth days, but the surface itself takes 243 days to go the distance.
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