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Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Shrinking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the like-my-will-to-live dept.

cjstaples noted a CNN story proclaiming that Jupiter's signature red spot is shrinking. Over a 10 year study, the giant storm lost just over half a kilometer per day for a total loss of about 15%. Scientists know about shrinkage, right?

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  1. Let's celebrate! by saforrest · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey everyone! Because some other random thing is happening on a human time scale in another planet, therefore our pumping of millions of kilograms of carbon into the atmosphere, formerly sequestered underground for hundreds of millions of years, must therefore be having no effect at all on our climate! Yay!

    Jeez. I realize that we get a lot of overheated (excuse the pun) rhetoric from proponents of AGW, but do you skeptics really have to take your rhetorical bandwagon so far in the opposite direction? Isn't it enough just not to believe?

    Unless someone shows me otherwise, alterations in Jupiter's spot say exactly nothing about terrestrial global warming.

  2. A Special Message From Al Gore by BRock97 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Climate change here on Earth is so bad, we are affecting the climate on other planets. That and ManBearPig is involved somehow. Thank you.

    --

    Bryan R.
    The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
  3. Re:meme tag stole my post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So, is it Al Gore's company that's benefiting, or the government?

    Al Gore's company = private, for-profit, nothing to do with power.

    Government = public, non-profit, everything to do with power.

    So - which is it? Oh wait. You just wanted to *look* important and *sound* clever without actually doing some mental work to achieve it.