Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming

National Geographic News ^

[WBL 1952]

Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human- induced—cause.

Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.

In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

[metmom]

Goes right along with his honorary doctorate in climatology.

[Arrowhead1952]

Where did he get that from? One of those on-line universities that hand out degrees like candy for $25.00?

[RockinRight]

It HINTS at Solar causes?

Geez, nothing gets by these "experts" does it?

[Constitution Day]

ROFL!

[dfwgator]

But of course, that doesn't mean that global warming on Earth isn't human caused anyway.

They've already weaseled out of the "global warming" part. They now prefer the term, "Climate Change."

[ECM]

haha, very clever :)

[Daffynition]

Mars Rover.

[Holicheese]

I will never forget Boy #1, Boy #2, Boy #3 and Boy #4. The way they would play and laugh!

[mutantcoil]

Move along, nothing to see here.

[VA_Gentleman]

I take it you saw the episode again this week.

We were only nice to you because you don't have any friends!

[Holicheese]

I think the episode is brilliant.
"Ya, right, the guy who single handidly killed Manbearpig is a loser."

[VA_Gentleman]

It is an excellent episode. I'm also partial to the episode from Season 1 when the boys from South Park get Robert Smith of the Cure to save South Park from Barbara Streisand.

[Holicheese]

I miss Big Gay Al.
That was a very funny character.

[VA_Gentleman]

I'm Super Fantastic! Thank you soooooo much for asking.


Sit Sparky! Good boy. Roll over Sparky. Good. Now, don't be gay Sparky.

[Halgr]

Thanks for the links!!!

[TwoSue]

The links don't work for me.

[SengirV]

You're welcome. I use them all the time to shut the yaps of those "We humans are killing the planet" types.

[secretagent]

I read that the Earth's temperature had plateaued and actually dropped by a fraction of a degree in recent years.

One warmer's response:

I got this from a mainstream site, Gristmill - "How to Talk to a Skeptic"

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/4/175028/329

Their graph shows variations above and below a trend line of increasing temperatures, and includes the 1998 spike. The trend line still goes up.

[ancient_geezer]

It pays to take a look at a graph with better resolution that shows what is currently going on.

The short term high spikes in temperature of the following graph are do to El Nino, the red line is the combined ocean & land temperature index, the black is land meteorlogical stations only.

 

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.C_lrg.gif

[fortunecookie]

But, but, how can this be, even in theory? Algore told us on the internet he invented and in his movie (which I haven't seen) that we humans are the cause for global warming and the UN has confirmed this and added that we can't stop or fix it. /sarcasm