Originally Posted by rat

Interesting point of view flogger. Can you please quote the source of your article?

Greenhouse effect is thought to be one of the reasons of climate change, on which man has some control over. One cannot regulate solar activity. Hence there is an effort to reduce the greenhouse gas emission.

Actually, the presence of atmosphere on earth leads to the weather conditons we have. For example, on Moon there is no atmosphere and hence there is a prevalence of extreme climate in there. The sunfacing side is extremely hot and the dark side is extremely cold.

In the same way, Mars I think you meant Venus. Mars' atmosphere does have a high CO2 content but is too thin to make a difference which has a very high percentage of CO2 int its atmosphere, is very hot. Different gases have different properties and hence they affect the weather in a different way too.

There is still a scientific debate going on in this area, and the scientific community will accept an alternate view if someone can prove it with data. Scientific community is quite ready to accept new ideas, for example look at the theory about atomic models we have now. If you compare it with what existed 100 years back, it will not make any sense now. But any good theory takes time to develop. Imagine that Newton's laws were developed only 350 odd years back.