I watched this on discovery channel <PERSON> talking about the the comparison between Venus and Earth, the oceans, formation of limestone and how that was responsible for removing Carbon Dioxide ejected in large quantities by volcanic eruptions.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey-2014&episode=s01e12
Venus and Earth started out with about the same amount of carbon, but the two worlds were propelled along radically different paths, and carbon was the decisive element in both stories.
On Venus, Carbon Dioxide all in the form of gas-- carbon dioxide-- in the atmosphere. Most of the carbon on Earth has been stored for eons in solid vaults of carbonate rock, like part of a chain that forms the celebrated White Cliffs of Dover, right on the English Channel.
Created over the eons by Trillions of one-celled algae
Volcanoes supply carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and the oceans slowly absorb it. Working over the course of millions of years, the microscopic algae harvested the carbon dioxide and turned it into these tiny shells. They accumulated in thick deposits of chalk, or limestone, on the ocean floor.
...Later, the restless Earth pushed up the seafloor and carved out these massive cliffs. Other marine creatures took in carbon dioxide to build enormous coral reefs. And the oceans converted dissolved CO2 into limestone even without any help from life. 571
As a result, only a trace amount was left as a gas in Earth's atmosphere. Not even three-hundredths of one percent.
Think of it-- fewer than three molecules out of every ten thousand. And yet, it makes the critical difference between a barren wasteland and a garden of life on Earth.
With no CO2 at all, the Earth would be frozen.
And with twice as many, we're still talking about only six molecules out of ten thousand. Things would get uncomfortably hot and cause us some serious problems but never as hot as Venus; not even close.
That planet lost its ocean to space billions of years ago.
Without an ocean, it had no way to capture CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as a mineral.
The CO2 from erupting volcanoes just continued to build up. Today, that atmosphere is 90 times heavier than ours.
If your planet is relatively benign Volcano-wise then possible. Too many volcanic eruptions and you might have problems. For the early history of your world, one-celled algae will be the only life capable of removing the carbon dioxide ejected by volcanoes. 279