Brighter sun adds to fears of climate change
The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | March 26, 2006 | Unsigned
Posted on 03/26/2006 11:29:27 AM EST by aculeus
A series of independent studies around the world show a significant rise in the amount of sunshine penetrating the atmosphere to be absorbed by the earth’s surface and turned into heat.
The research will concern climate researchers who are already predicting a rapid rise in global temperatures due to man-made emissions of so-called greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.
“The enhanced warming we have seen since the 1990s along with phenomena such as the widespread melting of glaciers could well be due to this increased intensity of sunlight compounding the effect of greenhouse gases,” said Professor Martin Wild of the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science in Zurich, Switzerland....
Global Warming on Mars WORLD VIEWS ^ | Joe Carter
Posted on 02/01/2007 11:21:28 AM EST by Moseley
In its ninth year in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has made a number of surprising discoveries.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/20050920a.html 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....
WSJ: Will Al Gore Melt?
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 18, 2007 | FLEMMING ROSE and BJORN LOMBORG
Posted on 01/18/2007 1:59:49 PM EST by OESY
...Al Gore is on a mission. If he has his way, we could end up choosing a future, based on dubious claims, that could cost us, according to a U.N. estimate, $553 trillion over this century.
COMMENT: If we are going to spend $553 trillion over the next 100 years as the UN and France advocate, and forget about the solvency of our Social Security and Medicare programs, shouldn't we at least spend it on our most pristine environments like Mars--just as we have avoided disturbing the pristine mosquitoes and black flies in ANWAR? /sarc.
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