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. Hmmm.
It’s all the damn rovers we sent there!
That’s just God huggin’ Mars closer.
See that proves it, we are putting out so many green house gases on earth that is is equally affecting Mars. How would have ever thought of that>
That’s pretty interesting, for sure.
Here’s a billboard in Minnesota that I’ve been driving past twice per week for the last year:
It only makes sense. I mean, Mars is a completely different planet. It has a different orbit, much more eccentric. It is further from the sun. It has a completely different kind of atmosphere, made up 95% of CO2, complete with massive dust storms (unlike Earth - 78% Nitrogen, 0.038% CO2). Despite all these differences, it only makes sense that the causes of warming would be the same.
It’s all the damn rovers we sent there!
The rovers are battery powered. Seems to me that the hoopla over GW…I’m sorry, *climate change…*on earth has pretty much coincided with the more prevalent use of electric and hybrid powered vehicles here too. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. It’s them damn pansy Prius drivers! 
Nice one.
I think Priuses (Priusi?) should be banned from the left lane.
My father died from lung cancer but didn’t smoke.
Blame Arnold Schwarzenegger. He drives Hummers. He was in a movie about Mars (Total Recall?) Therefore it must be his fault.
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. Hmmm.
Do you have a link for this? I had a root around the nasa website but couldn’t see anything obviously referring to this. Thx.
as I snooped around NASA’s site, it appears that they been looking at climate change on Mars for some decades. It appears to be unrelated to any climate change on Earth. For example:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/mars_ice_age.html
If we could find out if that trend is occuring on all the planets, we can assume that the sun is affecting the increase across the solar system.
That’s just God huggin’ Mars closer.
sphere,
I love it! Great timing and delivery! ROTFLOL
Dan
I’m trying to figure out the contrarian arguments. First, the planet wasn’t warming. Then, it is warming. Then, polar ice cap growth and cold weather means there is no warming again.
On the other hand, Mars is warming at the same rate as the earth.
Is it possible to keep both concepts (earth is not warming with Mars/Earth warming at the same rate) in the mind at the same time?
All I know is that it is cold as hell outside right now.
Of course climate change can be natural.
But we know what is causing climate change on earth because we can directly measure human c02 inputs to our atmosphere, because the c02 we produce is of a different isotope than the c02 that natural sources put into the atmosphere.
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. Hmmm.
Here’s a billboard in Minnesota that I’ve been driving past twice per week for the last year.
It’s amazing what the oil companies will waste their money on now that they are rolling in it.
The oil companies are definitely not “rolling in it” at $36/bbl. crude.
In fact, I am fully expecting Congress to bail out Big Oil at the end of this year, due to lower earnings/losses.
They wanted to penalize them when they made money, why not bail them out when they lose?
edit - extended sarcasm to last sentence.
“They wanted to penalize them when they made money, why not bail them out when they lose?”
I realize you’re being sarcastic, but this part was not in pink. I can assure you that oil companies are not losing money at $36 a barrel. Unless, of course, they are run by idiots that thought the price would stay at record levels and as such invested in high risk ventures (oil shale, tar sands) that cost $60 per recovered barrel.