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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."
Actually the sun is older than once thought. We were always told we had 4.5 billion years before the sun died. While that is probably true as the sun burns more fuel it will burn hotter and hotter. In a scant 1 million years the mean temp on earth could be around 160 degrees. I you look over the history of the earth it has been a big snowball, a big desert with 140 degree temps. No oxygen, so much oxygen that it made life that can't live in the oxygen levels we have had for the last 300 million years.
The earth will survive. We might not. Nearly all the creatures that have every lived have been wiped out long before we showed up for our very short stint, so far, as the top monkey.
If they are so good at predicting long term weather trends how come they can't get the weather next week correct?