Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report

Heartland Institute ^ | November 1, 2005 | James M. Taylor

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I say we dispatch Al Gore to Mars pronto with a copy of the Kyoto Protocol for the Martians to sign.

[jpl]

Coincidence? I don't think so!

Yeah, no kidding. That big glowing yellow ball we sometimes call "the sun" appears to be warming up, and lo and behold, not just Earth, but all the planets in our solar system just happen to be entering a warming period!

And to think, we didn't even need PhDs to be able to connect the dots on this one.

[gridlock]

[gridlock]

Of course, cars have been on Mars since the Sixties...

[thackney]

OH NO!!!!

Earths SUV's are causing so much global warming that the heat we are throwing off is melting nearby plants!!!

or so the eviromentalists will claim...

[cripplecreek]

There are so many variables that a true scientist couldn't hope to make an accurate prediction of outcomes.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Bob! What have you been up to? ;)

[snarkpup]

If all the estimates are true about the relative effects of forcings like the sun, black carbon, and greenhouse gases, then it is quite possible that we would have been in a sharply cooling phase over recent years were it not for these forcings.

This is the thesis of the novel Fallen Angels, by Larry Niven, et al. Unbeknownst to anyone, the next ice age is being held back by these counteracting effects. When a totalitarian government run by eco-fascists bans fossil fuel consumption, the ice age hits.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Coincidence? I don't think so!

I'll await the report on Venus.....

:-P

[mad_as_he$$]

How about the Weather Channel?

[Calvin Locke]

And I was going to suggest that a Congressional fact-finding boondoggle of a Mars mission be mounted to send Sheila Jackson Lee, Nancy Pelosi, and whom ever else is pushing the man-made created global warming hysteria to check out those facts, in person.

Any peroxide breathing life would be likely to send that crew back, since I don't think any member of congress looks like your picture.

[TX Bluebonnet]

There are so many variables that a true scientist couldn't hope to make an accurate prediction of outcomes.

Exunctly. However, people like Al Gore are perfectly comfortable.

[texasmountainman]

Uh-Oh! Instead of going to Iraq, we better send Pelosi and crew (with a one-way ticket, of course) to Mars to create a Mars Global warming commission.

[rocksblues]

Your correct, they must also run the story.

[mad_as_he$$]

I read an article in the last month, forgot where but one of the guys who used to be on the dark side has switched sides and said the the BEST model they have looks at 22 variables. He believes that it could be as many 48 variables. Very telling.

[BenLurkin]

Fat chance.

[SengirV]

Publication Date: November 1, 2005

[mhking]

How long before that idiot at The Weather Channel (Dr. Heidi Cullen) starts to blame that on global warming?

[Bailee]

Dont even need a one way ticket just barely enough fuel to get out of Earth atmosphere.

[cogitator]

Likely the article I've linked to most on FR:

Global warming on Mars?

Go to the above link for embedded links.

Excerpts:

"Globally, the mean temperature of the Martian atmosphere is particularly sensitive to the strength and duration of hemispheric dust storms, (see for example here and here). Large scale dust storms change the atmospheric opacity and convection; as always when comparing mean temperatures, the altitude at which the measurement is made matters, but to the extent it is sensible to speak of a mean temperature for Mars, the evidence is for significant cooling from the 1970's, when Viking made measurements, compared to current temperatures. However, this is essentially due to large scale dust storms that were common back then, compared to a lower level of storminess now. The mean temperature on Mars, averaged over the Martian year can change by many degrees from year to year, depending on how active large scale dust storms are."

and

"In 2001, Malin et al published a short article in Science (subscription required) discussing MGS data showing a rapid shrinkage of the South Polar Cap. Recently, the MGS team had a press release discussing more recent data showing the trend had continued. MGS 2001 press release MGS 2005 press release. The shrinkage of the Martian South Polar Cap is almost certainly a regional climate change, and is not any indication of global warming trends in the Martian atmosphere. Colaprete et al in Nature 2005 (subscription required) showed, using the Mars GCM, that the south polar climate is unstable due to the peculiar topography near the pole, and the current configuration is on the instability border; we therefore expect to see rapid changes in ice cover as the regional climate transits between the unstable states."