[fidelis]

Oh man! Wait till Greta hears about this!

[Olog-hai]

[Dr. Franklin]

That's just not credible!

[crazyhorse691]

“The model suggests” that with another $250,000,000 grant we can research that problem to within an accuracy of +/- 100%

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

"...via MSN."

Mars' lesser gravity (than earth's) is capable only of holding a heavier atmosphere than earth's. That's it. More than 90 percent is carbon dioxide, but since the MSN and today's "theorists" think carbon dioxide is a pollutant, then one could alternatively claim -- theorize -- that the "pollutant" killed off any possible oxygen-producing life forms. Which would also be bunkum.

Simple. Mars is smaller and less massive than earth and therefore does not hold lighter gaseous elements. Its gravity compared to the earth is only about 40 percent.

CO2 is 44.02, while oxygen is "lighter" at 31.99 and nitrogen even lighter at 28.01. So earth holds about 78 percent nitrogen in its atmosphere while Mars simply cannot. Ditto with oxygen.

Trust MSN to print "scientific" theories without basic science behind it. The idiotic article hints that there was an atmosphere similar to earth's which got "eaten away." Loony. Gravity sucks. Less gravity sucks less....

[Egon]

Ancient microbial life on Mars could have destroyed the planet’s atmosphere through climate change, which ultimately led to its extinction, new research has suggested.

Microbial life?? Really??

Those selfish, short-sighted microbes! If only there was a microbe version of Greta Thunberg to put them all in their places! If only the progressive side of Microbia had better news coverage they might have avoided the CO2 generated by their tiny SUVs, flagella-spray, and failure to trade in bioluminescent lighting for LEDs.

Oh, the huge manatee!

[Eleutheria5]

Not the Bee.

[D_Idaho]

Science!!

[HKMk23]

Modeling studies consistently prove that either very few scientists are capable of creating accurate models, OR (and this is more highly likely) creating accurate models is entirely NOT the point, because accurate models would not yield the desired result.

[Mr. Blond]

Mars doesn’t have a magnetosphere.

[BitWielder1]

These Climate Change fanatics will stop at nothing to apply their one pet theory to everything.
Mars does not have a dense atmosphere because it's too lightweight to hold on to it and does not have enough geological outgassing to compensate.

[Yossarian]

NOT. BREAKING. NEWS.

[hflynn]

Dems can learn 2 important lessons from this:

1. It's not easy being Green

2. Go Red and your dead

[Lazamataz]

What a bunch of unmitigated BS.

There is NO PROOF that life existed on Mars, and these morons just ASSUME there was, and then they ASSUME it's extinct, then they just ASSUME they know why.

I mean, just go whole hog and assume the planet was alive with unicorns and leprechans.

[ealgeone]

Man...we need to somehow package climate change as a weapon.

[RaceBannon]

Oh puleeze

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I just don’t know about the proclamations of the new, government paid religious-sciencists.

Something seems, not scientific…

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I smell bullshit.

[Bullish]

These jerks will make up anything in order to feed off the taxpayers trough. No theory is too far fetched when they want more taxpayer grant money.
What a racket.

[Carriage Hill]

Maybe, maybe, maybe...
Possibly, possibly, possibly...
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...
Could of, could of, could of...

Another load of crappola.