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Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars

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. Woo! by Chouonsoku · · Score: 5, Funny

    Take THAT hippie environmentalist tree huggers! I'm gonna go set a pile of styrofoam on fire in celebration.

  2. This will not stand by spike2131 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We must destroy the sun!

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  3. I am much relieved by slickwillie · · Score: 5, Funny

    When the temperature hits 200 F in a couple of years, we will be glad to know we didn't cause it.

  4. SHIT! by AlGore+(Oscar+Winner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Either way, no way I'm giving back my Oscar! -Al

  5. Must be the rovers by flyingfsck · · Score: 5, Funny

    It must be those SUVs NASA is operating on Mars that is the cause of the temperature rise...

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  6. Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    News at 11, the ocean is wet.

  7. Re:ya but.. by mastershake_phd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not at its age. Far too young.
     
    I thought the Sun was middle aged...isnt that when you usually expand?

  8. Re:ya but.. by Randolpho · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scientists *have* noticed a slight expanding at the sun's equator. I hear they recommended solar situps.

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