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Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming
National Geographic News ^

Posted on 03/02/2007 6:22:22 AM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...


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KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming
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Must be those Sport Utility Vehicles charging over the dunes of Mars.
1 posted on 03/02/2007 6:22:23 AM PST by WBL 1952
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Those Mars Rovers must have combustible engines. Clearly Al Gore should go to Mars and convince the martians to start buying carbon credits.
2 posted on 03/02/2007 6:24:45 AM PST by VA_Gentleman (Got a knack for being wrong, nothing's really going on - Dinosaur Jr.)
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Obviously Our Alien Masters have decided Earth is a failed project, and are warming up the lab for the next test phase!

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3 posted on 03/02/2007 6:26:13 AM PST by 50sDad (Cultural Diversity means never having to say "I don't fit in.")
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To: WBL 1952

See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793354/posts


4 posted on 03/02/2007 6:26:34 AM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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"Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming"

The editor who selected this headline just can't quite let it go, can he? The ice melt on Mars only "hints" but it doesn't quite convince the environmentalists that it's solar and not human caused.

5 posted on 03/02/2007 6:27:15 AM PST by TommyDale (What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
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Or, the warmer Earth may be causing Mars to melt.


6 posted on 03/02/2007 6:27:47 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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Human caused global warming on Mars. /shakes head in disbelief


7 posted on 03/02/2007 6:28:51 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Don't forget the warming up of Pluto, Jupiter and Titan

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_warming_021009.html
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980526052143data_trunc_sys.shtml
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_jr.html


8 posted on 03/02/2007 6:29:29 AM PST by SengirV
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But of course, that doesn't mean that global warming on Earth isn't human caused anyway. That's only Mars. They'll figure out some way of weaseling out of it.


9 posted on 03/02/2007 6:30:47 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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"Must be those Sport Utility Vehicles charging over the dunes of Mars."

...and all that hairspray that martian women have been using.



10 posted on 03/02/2007 6:31:17 AM PST by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid.)
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Maybe we should switch from Mars to M&Ms. They melt in your mouth, not in your hands.


11 posted on 03/02/2007 6:31:39 AM PST by sportutegrl (This thread is useless without pix.)
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See, this is why we need to use alien energy technology. If we don't buy from the aliens, they will melt our planet. Mars is just the demo.


12 posted on 03/02/2007 6:31:42 AM PST by Tarpon
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Must be those Sport Utility Vehicles charging over the dunes of Mars.

Maybe Al Gore has a house there.

13 posted on 03/02/2007 6:32:44 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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...the global alarmist will ignore anything that don't fit their agenda. Besides there's no one on Mars who could pay the fines that would allow the socialist to continue beating the US into submission through "taxes".....(fines)
14 posted on 03/02/2007 6:33:02 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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Posted on the related thread:

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15 posted on 03/02/2007 6:33:17 AM PST by Sax
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I wounder how long it will be before the Globull Warming Nazis start demanding that government grants be pulled from any research that is finding evidence contrary to the leftist's selected cause?
16 posted on 03/02/2007 6:33:34 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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"You see I told you we were going to destroy the universe with our aerosol spray cans", Al Bore
17 posted on 03/02/2007 6:34:16 AM PST by street_lawyer (Conservative Defender of the Faith)
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Or, the warmer Earth may be causing Mars to melt

That is exactly what Al Gore and I were talking about just yesterday!

18 posted on 03/02/2007 6:34:38 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming...

A few months ago, I read that the Earth's temperature had plateaued and actually dropped by a fraction of a degree in recent years. I love the way that the 'Global Warminions' assert their beliefs and desires as fact.

19 posted on 03/02/2007 6:34:45 AM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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Maybe algore can finally catch manbearpig on Mars!!


20 posted on 03/02/2007 6:35:36 AM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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