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Global Warming on Mars
Jet Propulsion Laborotory ^ | 9/21/2005 | reallygone

Posted on 09/21/2005 9:47:54 AM PDT by reallygone

"For three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress....The camera has recorded seasonal patterns of clouds and dust within the atmosphere over the entire planet. In addition, other instruments on Mars Global Surveyor have provided information about atmospheric changes and year-to-year patterns on Mars as the mission has persisted. "

NASA denies that the Mars rovers have contributed to greenhouse gases in the Martian atomosphere which is leading to a pattern of global warming as seen on Earth. It is expected that environmental groups will protest United States use of vehicles on Mars (there are more U.S. vehicles on Mars than the combined total of all of the other nations have launched to the planet) and call for treaties to institute interplanetary guidelines attempting to reverse this trend.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: climate; mars; warming
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The suggestion that the shrinking of Mars polar cap may result from natural occurances or from a general increase in energy output is rejected by many critics of the U.S. environmental policy. These critics point to the fact that such polar melting was not noted before the landing of U.S. exploration vehicles, and thus may well have been the triggering mechanism. Such global warming on Mars threatens the fragile ecosystem and may endanger all Martian life (assuming there is any).
1 posted on 09/21/2005 9:47:56 AM PDT by reallygone
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To: reallygone

Bush's fault.


2 posted on 09/21/2005 9:49:19 AM PDT by fhlh (Polls are for strippers and liberal spin.)
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To: reallygone

It's Bush's fault


3 posted on 09/21/2005 9:49:26 AM PDT by bmwcyle (We broke Pink's Code and found a terrorist message)
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To: reallygone

Oh my! It's all Bush's fault!


4 posted on 09/21/2005 9:50:06 AM PDT by Tarkin (Janice Rogers Brown to the SCOTUS)
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To: reallygone
"NASA denies that the Mars rovers have contributed to greenhouse gases in the Martian atomosphere which is leading to a pattern of global warming as seen on Earth."


5 posted on 09/21/2005 9:50:25 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: reallygone

Those rovers aren't hybrids, are they? Tsk, tsk.


6 posted on 09/21/2005 9:50:35 AM PDT by Dahoser (The Clymer gene continues to replicate. Now that's biological warfare.)
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To: reallygone

Well well, the same mechanisms that warm Mars could be warming Earth. Say, ohh,...THE SUN!

Nah, cant be. Variable energy output from the sun over thousands of years?

Why thats...thats.. just crazy talk!


7 posted on 09/21/2005 9:51:09 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: reallygone

Paging Algore.


8 posted on 09/21/2005 9:52:10 AM PDT by stbdside
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Of course, there's the (I think) wild idea from one Richard C. Hoagland suggesting that because our Solar System is moving through a certain point in hyperdimensional space that all of the planets are warming up....


9 posted on 09/21/2005 9:52:56 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: reallygone

I fervently believe we should send all our most prominent environmentalists to Mars to launch a 10 year investigation. Perhaps longer.


10 posted on 09/21/2005 9:57:25 AM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: reallygone
Minorities & women hit hardest....
11 posted on 09/21/2005 9:57:35 AM PDT by The SISU kid (Politicians are like Slinkies. Good for nothing. But you smile when you push them down the stairs)
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To: reallygone

Damn you Mr. Bush is there no planet safe from your madness!!??!!


12 posted on 09/21/2005 9:58:06 AM PDT by kanecorp
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Pluto warming as well.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_warming_021009.html


13 posted on 09/21/2005 9:58:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: fhlh

It's all those landers crashing on Mars...Bush's fault.


14 posted on 09/21/2005 9:59:41 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (Christian, Comedian, Husband,Opa, Dog Owner, former Cat Co-dweller, and all around good guy.)
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To: cripplecreek
Pluto warming?!! Quick, call PETA!


15 posted on 09/21/2005 10:01:17 AM PDT by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: cripplecreek

I figured it out. Because of the global warming here on earth, it is increasing the amount of solar radiation hitting other planets.

And, it's Bush's fault.


16 posted on 09/21/2005 10:02:34 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (Christian, Comedian, Husband,Opa, Dog Owner, former Cat Co-dweller, and all around good guy.)
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To: reallygone

Must be the Tok'ra doing some terraforming.


17 posted on 09/21/2005 10:04:28 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!")
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To: Sensei Ern

Well, Bush should just push the Sun back a few feet to moderate temperature. Sheesh...he's the President of the United States. He should be able to do that. John Kerry would have done that, and he would have done it better!


18 posted on 09/21/2005 10:06:04 AM PDT by ark_girl
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That's it, pull all the people off Mars - damn humans heating up the entire solar system, and how did those stupid people get to pluto.....


19 posted on 09/21/2005 10:07:14 AM PDT by michaelbfree
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To: reallygone

DAMN MARTIAN SUVs!!!!


20 posted on 09/21/2005 10:07:46 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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