Global warming on Mars – without SUVs!

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, December 10, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

THE FINAL FRONTIER
Global warming on Mars – without SUVs!
Planet experiencing increased temperatures despite lack of humankind

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Posted: December 10, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Though not subject to pollutants of human habitation, Mars appears to be undergoing global warming, with new data suggesting the planet is possibly emerging from an ice age.

According to a report in Space.com, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has spotted seasonal changes, such as the advance and retreat of polar ice, but it also is gathering information pointing to long-term trends.

William Feldman of the Los Alamos National Laboratory tells the site the current climate conditions, including too much frozen water at low-latitude regions, suggests something is out of equilibrium on Mars.

"One explanation could be that Mars is just coming out of an ice age," Feldman told Space.com. "In some low-latitude areas, the ice has already dissipated. In others, that process is slower and hasn't reached an equilibrium yet. Those areas are like the patches of snow you sometimes see persisting in protected spots long after the last snowfall of the winter."

According to the report, frozen water makes up as much as 10 percent of the top three feet of surface material in some regions close to the equator. Dust deposits may be covering and insulating the lingering ice, Feldman said.

Feldman is the scientist in charge of an Odyssey instrument that assesses water content indirectly through measurements of neutron emissions.

"Odyssey is giving us indications of recent global climate change on Mars," Jeffrey Plaut, project scientist for the mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is quoted as saying.

According to the report, other data from Odyssey is helping scientists figure out what is going on climatologically on the planet. The orbiter has been surveying the planet for nearly a full Martian year.

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[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, December 10, 2003

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[swilhelm73]

The most obvious source of Mars warming up would be increased solar output.

Hmm, wonder what such a theory does to the idea of global warming???

[Simmy2.5]

Bah. Who cares about the facts. It's still Bushes fault for not signing the Kyoto Treaty. </greenyidiotspeak>

[raynearhood]

So, basically what is being said is that emmissions from fossil fueled vehicles and power plants, and the fumes from cigarrete smoke have gotten so bad here on earth that they have passed through the hole in the ozone layer, traveled across millions of miles of vacuumous space and now treaten the ecological balance of surrounding planets.

Or, perhaps the Martians are picking up television and radio transmissions from the Dems' primary race. I think perhaps all the hot air and smoke being blown up the public's collective a&% from the left is melting the Martian polar ice-caps.

[Euro-American Scum]

Global warming on Mars

Clinton blames the NRA.

[raynearhood]

cigarrete=cigarette
treaten=threaten

I need to learn how to use spell check.

[Dallas59]

So maybe some of the Martians will go back now?

[KeyWest]

Not just Mars- Neptune also shows "global warming".

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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