"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.
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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.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's 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."
I can't wait for Al Gore to tell us how MARS is being heated by human CO2 emissions......
Read it guys and gals. This is important stuff - crippling our economy when the claimed benefit will not materialize leads one to ask a simple question - what is your REAL agenda in pushing this little bit of nonsense?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
By the way, for those of you who believe in the CO2 theory - consider this -
It is a known fact that both water vapor and methane absorb and trap far more solar radiation than CO2 does - that is, they are tremendously more effective as "greenhouse gases".
Water vapor dwarfs CO2 content in the atmosphere, and methane is not a man-made greenhouse gas (well, other than our flatulence, which really doesn't have much to do with how often we drive an SUV!)
Funny how the so-called "mainstream" politicians, er, scientists don't bother accounting for that.
