It's the end of the world as we know it.

[Mnementh]

SvennoJ said:

Mnementh said:

Sorry, earth will not easily turn into venus. Venus had no tectonic plates develop, something which is important in earths carbon cycle, this is a major COâ‚‚ sink. Plate tectonics have lead to the most extreme ice age, where earth completely froze over to the equator, about 800 million years ago.

On venus and earth both COâ‚‚ is released by volcanic activity from the planets inside. But while on earth with waethering and plate tectonics a system exists to put carbon back into the earth, no similar process exists on venus. So more and more COâ‚‚ is released there and never reduced. This is the reason Venus got so hot. Also as the gas is accumulating the atmosphere got thicker (as nothing is removed), so it has much, much more pressure than the earths atmosphere.

Never said it would be easy, neither did Stephan Hawking in the livescience article. Yet as for things Earth can recover from, nuclear winter is easy.
Earth might have the same fate as Venus, but on a Billion year time scale (as the sun gets hotter)

As puny humans we can make it a lot more uncomfortable for ourselves.

The same livescience article had climatologists declare it as hyperbolic. And yeah, once the sun is expanding things will change more drastically, but that is billions of years away.

And yes, we can and we do make it a lot more uncomfortable for ourselves. I count war also as that, but climate change as well.