Kate Ravilious
for National Geographic News
February 28, 2007
Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human-induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.
Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Mars North Pole image
Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.
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. natgeo
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh bullshit
ReplyDeleteI think there probably is a natural cycle of cooling and warming, but we have made it more extreme and may have passed beyond the tipping point where the planet can cool itself down again. Sure hope I'm totally wrong! I sort of like this planet.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the people are just being manipulated. "Little Johnny, it's your fault it's such a hot day, you're going to have to change your ways...and it's going to cost you.
ReplyDeleteyea I tend to agree with Joy (funny, since we are related ;) hehe There have always been cooling and warming periods for eons of time but never has there been a time that we've had the capability (with the rise of industrial age) to drastically add to the warming effect
ReplyDeletei guess im not up to speed on my Mars news - I thought latest Phoenix lander probes were hoping to find ice....hmmm..
ReplyDeleteI'll buy it all if Mars starts cooling while we're still warming.
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