Pluto thought to be warming up

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[SunkenCiv]

"But so far, if anything, the atmosphere has gotten even denser."

I guess stuff that gets colder doesn't get denser over on Pluto. Or maybe this guy just has his head up his butt.

[jonrick46]

If Bush hadn't caused the Earth's global warming, it wouldn't have broken out all over the solar system. Soon, the entire Milky Way Galaxy will have global warming and it will be all Bush's fault. Already I am fixing to sue Bush for the coffee I spilled in my lap. If it weren't for the global warming, my coffee wouldn't have scalded me so bad that I need a sex change operation. I hope that everyone's coffee scalds lots of people so they can charge the government for their sex change. It's not only global warming, it's global scalding and it all Bush's fault!

[Fred Nerks]

Denser? So, the University of Tasmania finally bought a pair of binoculars? Us Mainlanders take anything the Taswegians say with a huge lump of salt. They don't think like us and they talk funny.

I can prove it. I read the article three times and I'm still none the wiser.

[DuncanWaring]

You're both right.

"Bush's Fault" is old.

New response should be "This wouldn't be happening if John Kerry were president".

:-P

[Jonah Hex]

Must be too many Hummers cruising around Uranus.

There's nothing worse than Klingons on Uranus... with Hummers.

;-)

[G Larry]

How could Pluto be warming when the evil, polluting, white, capitalist, industrialists, haven't even sent any rovers up there yet?

[mdmathis6]

The thing the scientists are really trying not to comment on....if Pluto and Mars are showing signs of warming up, the common denominator is the sun! If the sun is warming or increasing its out-put, then this would affect Earth as well...

Look for the first "Our Sun is going SuperNova" panic warnings any day now!(sarcasm on)

[mdmathis6]

Don't forget...we have more accurate and sensitive detection devices then we did 30 years ago and longer...We can detect things we never could before...therefore allowing astronomical increases in our ability to scare our-selves silly!

[Wuli]

That may be true, but many of the differences seen across the solar system have little to do with greater accuracy and are based on differences in data and observations from instruments that have undergone little or no substantial changes in decades.

My point was that it is not the earth and our "man made" causes that is creating "global warming". Our very sun and its solar system are going through a cyclical change, and this cycle, this energy cycle is reflected in changes seen from the sun and all the way out to Pluto.

[Wuli]

(1) "Warming" does not mean anything in the solar system is getting closer to the sun. This little bit about Pluto is just another minor blip in the general scientific admission that the sun has been heading into a more energetic cycle for some time now.

(2) Thus nothing about this report deals with either an expanding or contracting universe.

(3)Therefore no one was alarmed, so your feint towards the alarmists missed its target - there were none.

[freedomlover]

I went to your link and saw this mug.

She might be a nice lady but perhaps she got her start on radio.

[auto power]

Pluto warming up......don't tell Goofy.....

[knarf]

" .. so your feint towards the alarmists missed its target."

Rats! ..I was so hoping to slip this one in.

Oh well .. next time I'll follow with a < /sarcasm >

[KevinDavis]

The plutoians must have SUV's........

[Howlin]

You have Freepmail from me.

[SERKIT]

Those poor Plutonians ! Perhaps Al Sharpton will protest.

Representative Jackson-Lee (D-TX) just called in attempting to find the flag that Neil Armdong planted in 1969 on Pluto.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This is another one of those things that would not have happened if John effing Kerry had been elected president.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Roughly six hours. Pluto is like 40 AU from the sun. (One AU is the distance from Earth to Sun.) It takes sunlight just about 500 seconds to reach Earth. 500 x ~40 = ~20,000 seconds = ~6 hours.

[free_at_jsl.com]

Pluto has an elliptical orbit and is presently closer to the sun than Neptune. If measurements now were compared to many years ago when it was more distant from the sun, it stands to reason that the current measurements would indicate a warmer Pluto.

[MNJohnnie]

Nice try to make up a reason to deny reality. The fact is Pluto, Mars and the Moon are all showing raising temperatures. The change in orbit is not significant enough to explain the change in temperature on Pluto. But cling to your failed dogma. This desperation of the Enviro wackos to cling to their religious dogma in the face of science is amusing to watch