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Mars is in fact heating up just like the Earth but it's not Mr. Sun's Fault...
Someone is going to actually try to convince us that what is really and obviously happening is not happening. Give me a break. The poles on Mars are melting and they try to tell us its dust storms causing it and not the sun. Every year here where I live when the spring starts transitioning to summer the winds start to blow. Can't these Goreblist see the once cooler Mars is heating up from the sun and the winds are kicking up from the new temperature differential spurred on by increased solar radiation.
The truth is it is blowing their C02 theory all to Hell and they know it. Then they think we will just believe any Juvenile excuse they make up out of whole-cloth. Believing Al Gore-ism's is a precursor to total insanity IMHO.
Ivan
The Sunday TimesApril 29, 2007
Climate change hits Mars
Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.
Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.
Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.
The mechanism at work on Mars appears, however, to be different from that on Earth. One of the researchers, Lori Fenton, believes variations in radiation and temperature across the surface of the Red Planet are generating strong winds.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, she suggests that such winds can stir up giant dust storms, trapping heat and raising the planet’s temperature.
Fenton’s team unearthed heat maps of the Martian surface from Nasa’s Viking mission in the 1970s and compared them with maps gathered more than two decades later by Mars Global Surveyor. They found there had been widespread changes, with some areas becoming darker.
When a surface darkens it absorbs more heat, eventually radiating that heat back to warm the thin Martian atmosphere: lighter surfaces have the opposite effect. The temperature differences between the two are thought to be stirring up more winds, and dust, creating a cycle that is warming the planet.
Climate change hits Mars
Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.
Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.
Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.
The mechanism at work on Mars appears, however, to be different from that on Earth. One of the researchers, Lori Fenton, believes variations in radiation and temperature across the surface of the Red Planet are generating strong winds.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, she suggests that such winds can stir up giant dust storms, trapping heat and raising the planet’s temperature.
Fenton’s team unearthed heat maps of the Martian surface from Nasa’s Viking mission in the 1970s and compared them with maps gathered more than two decades later by Mars Global Surveyor. They found there had been widespread changes, with some areas becoming darker.
When a surface darkens it absorbs more heat, eventually radiating that heat back to warm the thin Martian atmosphere: lighter surfaces have the opposite effect. The temperature differences between the two are thought to be stirring up more winds, and dust, creating a cycle that is warming the planet.
Someone is going to actually try to convince us that what is really and obviously happening is not happening. Give me a break. The poles on Mars are melting and they try to tell us its dust storms causing it and not the sun. Every year here where I live when the spring starts transitioning to summer the winds start to blow. Can't these Goreblist see the once cooler Mars is heating up from the sun and the winds are kicking up from the new temperature differential spurred on by increased solar radiation.
The truth is it is blowing their C02 theory all to Hell and they know it. Then they think we will just believe any Juvenile excuse they make up out of whole-cloth. Believing Al Gore-ism's is a precursor to total insanity IMHO.
Ivan
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