Originally Posted by D

First off, I'm not sure who you mean by "they."

The scientific community has been using the conditions on Venus as analogous to our own for quite some time. It's been the epitome of the "greenhouse effect" in our solar system for well over 20 years, at least, and the fact that you're saying "So they are now using Venus as an example" pretty much convinces me that, for you, this is a political argument and not a scientific one... because it's not "so now" - it's an analogy drawn regularly in works on the subject for the last 20 years.

All it tells me is you're not very well-read on the subject you now speak on.