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Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age (reuters.com)
Taco Cowboy quotes a report from Reuters: An analysis of radar images that peered inside the polar ice caps of Mars shows that Earth's neighbor is coming out of an ice age that is part of an ongoing cycle of climate change, scientists said on Thursday. Using images taken by satellites orbiting Mars, the researchers determined that about 20,872 cubic miles (87,000 cubic km) of ice has accumulated at its poles since the end of the ice age, mostly in the northern polar cap. Scientists are keenly interested in piecing together the climate history of Mars, which contains strong evidence that oceans and lakes once pooled on its surface, bolstering the prospects for life. From the perspective of an Earthling, every day on Mars may feel like an ice age. According to NASA, temperatures on Mars may hit a high at noon at the equator in the summer of roughly 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius), or a low of about minus-225 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-153 degrees Celsius) at the poles. The Martian ice began its retreat about 370,000 years ago, marking the end of the last ice age, according to the research published in the journal Science
An analysis of radar images that peered inside the polar ice caps of Mars shows that Earth's neighbor is coming out of an ice age
Golly gee, so is Earth!
Except in Earth's case, Earthlings and their civilization are somehow to blame for the temperature rising and not the natural cycles the planet has gone through in the past, long before humans were a gleam in Darwin's eye.
Silly Earthlings!
No wonder star-faring civilizations have avoided direct contact!
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Temperatures on the other planets have, on average, risen less than on earth, but they have risen some.
This is not true. Even if it were true, there is no reason to believe that it would be connected to solar output, which is extremely stable. Long term climate trends are driven by changes in orbit, not the Sun.
Deforestation also increases average daily high temperatures more directly by reducing evaporative cooling during the hottest part of the day (and corresponding rain).
This has nothing to do with global warming. Global warming is a decrease in heat leaving the planet, not an increase in local temperatures.
You are clearly a very confused person.
The Earth should be cooling, yet it is warming. Human activity is responsible for all of that warming, including countering the expected natural cooling.