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To: TBP
All of the data that I use is from scientists, mostly climate scientists.

Then why don't you read the following three items and then retract what you say about Mars and Pluto, for starters?

Global warming on Mars?

Pluto is undergoing global warming, researchers find

Important excerpt: "Jay Pasachoff, an astronomy professor at Williams College, said that Pluto's global warming was "likely not connected with that of the Earth. The major way they could be connected is if the warming was caused by a large increase in sunlight. But the solar constant--the amount of sunlight received each second--is carefully monitored by spacecraft, and we know the sun's output is much too steady to be changing the temperature of Pluto." Pluto's orbit is much more elliptical than that of the other planets, and its rotational axis is tipped by a large angle relative to its orbit. Both factors could contribute to drastic seasonal changes. Since 1989, for example, the sun's position in Pluto's sky has changed by more than the corresponding change on the Earth that causes the difference between winter and spring. Pluto's atmospheric temperature varies between around minus 235 and minus 170 degrees Celsius, depending on the altitude above the surface. The main gas in Pluto's atmosphere is nitrogen, and Pluto has nitrogen ice on its surface that can evaporate into the atmosphere when it gets warmer, causing an increase in surface pressure. If the observed increase in the atmosphere also applies to the surface pressure--which is likely the case--this means that the average surface temperature of the nitrogen ice on Pluto has increased slightly less than 2 degrees Celsius over the past 14 years."

The Role of the Sun in 20th Century Climate Change

You hve brought nothignto this discussion except name-calling, leftist ideology, and disinformation.

I haven't called anyone names; I haven't stated any political views; and I haven't yet even provided any information before the links in this post.

By the way, my "perspective" is not ideological. It's scientifically-based.

24 posted on 02/23/2007 7:29:19 AM PST by cogitator
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To: cogitator
By the way, my "perspective" is not ideological. It's scientifically-based.

That's what all the left-wing ideologue scientists say. And especially the left-wing ideoloues who aren't scientists, merrely alarmists, like Heil Heidi Cullen and Algore.

25 posted on 02/23/2007 7:36:16 AM PST by TBP
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To: cogitator
I haven't called anyone names; I haven't stated any political views

Whatever.

You certainly called one of the climate scientists cited names, adn you know it too. And you've clearly established your political agenda on this issue. Purely political.

26 posted on 02/23/2007 7:42:57 AM PST by TBP
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To: cogitator
"Jay Pasachoff, an astronomy professor at Williams College, said that Pluto's global warming was "likely not connected with that of the Earth.

But iot doesn't need to be directly connected to be useful in pointing out the error of the anthropogenic warming theory. How could we humans have caused the warmings on Pluto or Mars? But if they're going on, too, and we humans couldn't hve caused them, then something else is happening. But why should something like that wreck a useful political doctrine?

37 posted on 02/23/2007 9:57:41 PM PST by TBP
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