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We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. (fediscience.org)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago

The limit is our distance from the Sun. After a certain point the greenhouse gasses can't make up for the fact that we just get less radiation than Venus does. The maximum potential I've seen is 10°C - almost all life would go extinct and we'd have to live on the tropical Antarctic archipelago, but not Venus.