Venus is not an example of runaway greenhouse (was Designing SPS to accomod)

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com 13238, "brooksn" wrote:
> And people are still dying from hyperthermia and heat stroke, 70,000 Europeans died in 2003 from heat.

That peer-reviewed figure wasn't for "hyperthermia and heat stroke". Of those who didn't die in fires, etc., blamed on the high ambient temperatures, the rest might have died from things like overhydration and hyponatremia:
http://www.amazon.com/Waterlogged-Serious-Problem-Overhydration-Endurance/dp/145042497X

> A little more CO2 would make those deaths more likely.

...Not relevant to nuclear vs. SPS, regardless.