Global Warming Mostly Confirmed - On Mars

dinotrac writes "A just-completed 23 month study, carried out over the course of a Martian year, found that the Martian polar ice caps are rapidly eroding, sending large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the Martian atmosphere. If this pattern continues over time, Mars could go from a planet whose winters are cold enough for dry-ice snow to having a shirt sleeve atmosphere. Humans would still have to provide for oxygen, but plants could go naked. I wonder if this means tougher emission controls on the next Martian rover?"

Comments

Ecofreaks love to ignore all counter examples.

[Shivetya]

Sorry, but it does prove one thing. The climates of planets is many times beyond our pale ability to understand or have an effect on.

Are we so egotistical to believe we can readily affect the Earths climate? We would seriously have to try very hard to make a noticable effect. A single volcano outdid us in 3 days... reducing sunlight striking the earth!

Yes we have pollution issues, but the fact remains that that 23 months of Mars data is very similar in one way to the earth, both are attempting to extrapolate what the resulting climates will become with limited data.

We simply don't have enough data to prove one way or another for the Earth

Re:Quick, call GreenPeace!

[linzeal]

Energy will NEVER be cheap again except for short duration

Maybe not as cheap as some greenpeace slut but damn close. If you fucking hippies hadn't derailed significant fission/fusion research by the fearmongering you did in the 60's, 70's and 80's (toked out of your gourds, I might add) we would never of had the sort of "perpetual" energy crisis whenever some fat cat wants to milk more money out of the populace. Congratfuckulations on giving the coal power plants the current lead in producing most of the electricity in the US, 40%

Also, stop destroying research that could actually feed the starving peoples of the world, because millenia of organic food certainly has not. The only fucks that can afford to stuff their faces with organic food are you and other people in industrilized nations. I feel a lot better giving a people a genitically engineered crop that does not need pesticides than some hippy tuber that will rot in the ground unless you dump tons of biotoxins on it.

Stay the fuck clear out of things you do not understand, hippy. Good day.