You say that air doesn’t weigh much but 1 atmosphere of pressure is already 14.7 pounds pee square inch at sea level. That’s enough to flatten a steel barrel if a vacuum is pulled inside it. The consequences of increased atmospheric pressure at the earths surface alone would be nothing short of a mass extinction event. Every planet would become a gas giant, and potentially even brown dwarfs if not stars in their own rights. I bet Saturn and Jupiter would ignite at the very least.
If we thought global warming was bad, the heating of the gas accretion combined with the insulating effects of a thicc atmosphere would likely completely eradicate all life.
On the plus side, it would be one hell of a show before all life burns out of existence.
You say that air doesn’t weigh much but 1 atmosphere of pressure is already 14.7 pounds pee square inch at sea level. That’s enough to flatten a steel barrel if a vacuum is pulled inside it. The consequences of increased atmospheric pressure at the earths surface alone would be nothing short of a mass extinction event. Every planet would become a gas giant, and potentially even brown dwarfs if not stars in their own rights. I bet Saturn and Jupiter would ignite at the very least.
If we thought global warming was bad, the heating of the gas accretion combined with the insulating effects of a thicc atmosphere would likely completely eradicate all life.
On the plus side, it would be one hell of a show before all life burns out of existence.