Global warming on Jupiter?

AmericanThinker ^ | 03/10/2009 | Allen Hoover

[BuckeyeTexan]

Global warming activists need to explain a news story last night. It appears that the Great Red Spot on the planet Jupiter is shrinking. Scientists theorize that this is a result of... planetary climate change.

Based on meteorological observations of the planet's surface, it is believed that the poles are getting cooler, while the equator is getting warmer. As a result of this (or perhaps vice-versa; these planetary phenomena are not well understood), certain persistent storms are growing stronger while others (including said Red Spot) are weakening.

Of course, Jupiter's climate change is due to natural phenomena, while we are reminded daily Earth's climate change is our fault. If the Great Red Spot, which is twice the diameter of the earth can shrink via natural causes, what's a temperature fluctuation of 1 degree in 20 years for us here on Earth? Is it time for a cap-and-trade system on Jupiter?

[BuckeyeTexan]

Bwahahaha!

[Recovering Hermit]

“Jupiter has a FEVER!”

[LottieDah]

It’s all the SUV diving, cow growing, hairspray using denizens of Jupiter that are causing “global warming” there.

[ComputerGuy]

We’re poisoning the solar system with our CO2.

[jrd]

it has to Bush’s fault!

[RC2]

No it doesn’t. It’s all the SUV’s and 18 wheelers up there that are causing it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Perhaps it is the fact that Solar output has increased...thus affecting all planetary bodies in our Solar System?

[ronnyquest]

I guess Al Gore will have to fix Jupiter, too. [/s]

[MarkeyD]

Seems to me that if the spot is shrinking, it would be because it’s cooler.

Shrinkage, ya know.

[Battle Axe]

Let’s send him there (Jupiter) for a fact finding tour.

[rightinthemiddle]

First Mars, now Jupiter. Can Saturn be next?

[wolfpat]

That can’t be it. There’s no federal money to be garnered from it. /sarc

[razbinn]

Stupid ignorant selfish Jovians are going to just ruin their planet....

[Jim Robinson]

Looks like they need long range government planning on Jupiter. Planned cities, rapid transit, wind and solar power, AND NO MORE COAL BURNING PLANTS!!!

[Just another Joe]

Don't you people know ANYTHING?

This is obviously caused by the solar system getting ready to cross the galactic equator.

And you'll all look at me as a prophet when I'm proved correct. ;^)

[SkyDancer]

Don’t stars get larger when they start dying???? More heat???

[BuckeyeTexan]

Jupiter definitely needs to move to clean coal. /s

;)

[dfwgator]

First Mars, now Jupiter. Can Saturn be next?

I hear it's getting warmer on Uranus.

[rightinthemiddle]

Yup, my truck has heated seats.

[dfwgator]

But seriously, 18 posts before the first Uranus joke? Come on guys, we’re slipping.