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Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars

Posted by Zonk on from the dang-mars-suvs dept.

MCraigW writes "Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes might have a natural — and not a human-induced — cause. Mars, it appears, has also been experiencing milder temperatures in recent years. 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. Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun."

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  1. Take that, Status Quo! by PopeOptimusPrime · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Those of us with brains have known for a great while that the anthropocentric model of global warming was a load of hooey, but if we dare to present papers on the subject, we are inevitably ostracized from the scientific community. I'm glad to see some Russian scientists have the yaichki to push forward with scientific reasoning.

    1. Re:Take that, Status Quo! by krakround · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Let me guess, you are a tenured professor of geophysics at a private university in the eastern United States and have 5 degrees?

  2. No Kidding by mombodog · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Global warming is caused by Man, what a load of crap. Put this in your pipe and smoke it Al Gore, you fucking opportunistic slime bag. He has no political legs, so he latches on to Global Warming, something he knows absolutely nothing about, oh yeah, he invented the Internet, I forgot about that one. It scares the fuck out of me that people like this have any power whatsoever. All Politicians suck big ones.

  3. Mod parent up. by Dryanta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This does not seem like a troll at all to me; I'd mod this insightful if I had points.

  4. Re:Well Duh by CryptoLogica · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, there really is no debate at all... if you listen to idiots like Dr.(of what?) Heidi Cullen who claim that its settled science and call for the de-certification of those who don't agree with her... then the debate is over.

    This is old news really, and has been HUGELY ignored by everyone... even the astronomers have acknowledged that "mini-ice age" experienced during the middle ages which was a period of cool temps along with a very quiet sunspot period and additional evidence suggests that when the sun is in a solar max period temperatures were higher. Its no different now than before. The sun's Solar Max period right now is the strongest on record... and DUH.. you turn up the heat on the stove, the pot starts to get warmer... and NO... Humans (or Americans if you listen to that retard Al Gore) aren't the primary cause of global warming.

    C.

  5. Re:I am much relieved by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I know your strawman attack was unintentional, but please, try not to do that in the future. It's intellectually dishonest, and it tends to derail discussions which might otherwise be productive.

    I know you can't help being a whiny pussy, but this passive-aggressive bullshit encourages personal attacks, and that derails discussions that might otherwise be productive.

    The original poster said nothing about Kyoto, but hey, why use facts when you can categorize every argument to a standard dogma?

  6. Re:All I have to say is... by Ferretman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    BTW, you fulfilled my expectation that there would be an ad-hominem directed at the researcher in question within the first ten replies.

    Yeah, I was pretty sure that would happen too. Sigh.

    These guys can't debate so they resort to attacks. It's sad. Predicatable, but sad.

    Ferretman

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