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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Re:RTFA

[altoz]

amazing how the parent is modded informative simply for quoting the article with that most informative of words, "crackpot". seriously, somebody meta-moderate these guys that seem to think that quoting the original article is informative.

anyone else think this "i agree with this poster so i'm going to mod him/her up" is a stupid way to use moderation points? if something is tagged informative, it should actually be informative.

Re:ya but..

[MadAhab]

Science is not a religion.

I know that's hard to take for those of you who prefer blind belief to rational thought. I have both faith and facts to inform me; and they never contradict each other because one is my left eye and the other my right eye.

Yeah, there are a few atheists and such whose beliefs are so extreme as to constitute an anti-religion. But they aren't anywhere as numerous as those whose blind belief contradicts the plain implications of the facts. They are just not equivalent (even though I find the most hard-core atheism to be equivalent to blind religious belief). So on the dogma-versus-reality scale, the atheists do not lose, even though I disagree with them on many things...

So no one needs or even wants man-made global warming to fit their belief system. Quite the opposite - those who accept the predominating scientific evidence accept, as their belief system, science and evidence. And they accept that new information can change these beliefs. While those who deny the current science on climate and man's influence on it adhere viciously to a system of belief that denies evidence, that denies the existence of facts, that denies anything that doesn't fit into their preconceived notions. Why ya gotta be so stupid, stupid?

You need to consider the relationships between "belief" and "science" and "evidence" and "facts" a bit more carefully before you open your mouth.