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    Default Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says

    Oh Phooey......Al Bore ain't going to like reading this article...
    He's going to have to go whip N.G. into submission...


    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. (Get an overview: "Global Warming Fast Facts".)

    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 south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

    Habibullah Abdussamet, head of space research at St. Petersburg 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.

    "The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.

    Solar Cycles

    Abdussamet believes that changes in the sun's heat output can account for almost all the climate changes we see on both planets.

    Mars and Earth, for instance, have experienced periodic ice ages throughout their histories.

    "Man-made greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years, but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance," Abdussamet said.

    By studying fluctuations in the warmth of the sun, Abdussamet believes he can see a pattern that fits with the ups and downs in climate we see on Earth and Mars.

    Abdussamatov's work, however, has not been well received by other climate scientists.

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    His work is not well recieved by the enviromentalists, is how that last sentence should read. Mars is experiencing global warming and there's no one there to blame it on. It's all the suns fault. Once again the chicken littles get kicked in the teeth by real science.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gaffer View Post
    His work is not well recieved by the enviromentalists, is how that last sentence should read. Mars is experiencing global warming and there's no one there to blame it on. It's all the suns fault. Once again the chicken littles get kicked in the teeth by real science.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    We are AWESOME. Omnipotent. Not only can we screw up Earth, but we can screw up a planet we've never been to. I bet it's all those broken down machines we keep sending ...


    Here's to us humans
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