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Jupiter's Third Red Spot
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the solar system's largest (and longest-lived) storm, was joined by another in 2006, dubbed Red Spot Junior. Now a third red spot near the first two has been photographed by the Hubble space telescope. This is a storm about half the size of Earth. Here's a photo of the new storm (it's the one on the left). From New Scientist: "No one knows for sure what gives the three spots their red color. But one theory is that especially violent storms dredge up material from deeper in Jupiter's atmosphere, such as phosphorus-containing molecules, which undergo chemical reactions that turn them red when exposed to sunlight."
With a powerful enough laser (more powerful than we currently have, IIRC), it might be possible to lase the area of the Red Spot and perform absorption spectroscopy.
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They will find a way to make it our fault. As with any other problem in the universe.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The OP succinctly and humorously made several valid points:
1) Global warming is occurring everywhere in the solar system due to increased solar activity.
2) This fact is completely unknown to most everybody who "believes" (as you put it) that global warming is a crisis.
3) The fact of extraterrestrial warming is glossed over entirely by scientists and media presenting information to the public because it would "damage the cause".
Your "unbiased" "scientific" mindset causes you to be ready to jump down the throats of anyone who voices a contrary opinion. It apparently has deleterious effects on the sense of humor as well.
You know you've become too partisan about an issue when you don't allow anyone to poke any fun at it.
Besides, if you somehow made the joke in the opposite direction, and put it on late-night TV along with similar jokes, it'd be called the Colbert Report and thousands of people would cheer you on and practically think you're the Second Coming.
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1.) Earth is warming much, much faster than other planets. Really? How do you know this? From the multiple millions of temperature sensors on Mars? From the hundreds of years of relatively accurate Jupiter-wide temperature readings?
Oh wait, you can't know that with any accuracy. 2.) Venus isn't warming. Venus is already unique in being by far the hottest planet. Nice way to bolster your "case" by pointing to the biggest outlier temperature-wise in the whole Solar system.
Twit. 3.) The amount of warming on Earth can not be explained by increased solar activity. Huh? Which Earth are you living on? Sun gets hotter, Earth gets hotter. 4.) The fact is not unknown, it is accounted for, and this fact is what is not known by idiot deniers. Ad hominem bullshit. What's that about "idiots"?
Go look in the mirror, moron. 5.) The discrepancy between earthly warming and extraterrestrial warming is glossed over entirely by deniers because it would "damage the cause." Right, because there's absolutely no difference in the accuracy and number of temperature readings on the Earth and locations off the Earth.
And there are no NASA scientists taking $1x10^6 from George Soros to cook the numbers from off-Earth. You have obviously already made up your mind about global warming, and no amount of evidence will sway you. Your biased mindset causes you to jump down the throat of anyone who presents an opinion different than yours. It also causes you to think that juvenile insults and cheap shots are "humorous." You don't seem to have anything approximating a mind.
And you probably really do think you're smart, too.
Which is actually know anything.
2) This fact is completely unknown to most everybody who "believes" (as you put it) that global warming is a crisis.
No, it's known by a great many. It's already been studied, and accounted for, by climatologists. It's discussed frequently with regards to global warming, because increasing solar output combined with increased greenhouse gases makes the problem even worse.
Your "unbiased" "scientific" mindset causes you to be ready to jump down the throats of anyone who voices a contrary opinion.
Why yes we're ready to jump down the throats of peoples whose opinions are conceived in abject ignorance, but who insist on presenting their uneducated ignorant opinions as though it is not only equal to, but superior, to the opinions of those who have done actual science in the field. These are not the same type of opinion. Stop pretending that having this explained to you is somehow a form of censorship or a sign of just how unreasonable everyone else is.
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