Global warming, oh yeah, and Martian warming, and Jupiterian (sp?) warming Options

[impala454]

http://abcradio.com/article.asp?id=386579&SPID=15663
from a blog with fred thompson filling in for paul harvey

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.

NASA says the Martian South Pole's ice cap has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter's caught the same cold, because it's warming up too, like Pluto.

This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non-signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.

Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn't even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There's a consensus.

Ask Galileo.

I looked up a few articles, says it was from a few months ago. I never heard anything of this. It would be pretty funny if it is true though. One article I got to had the scientist who wrote it saying that, according to the pattern they're seeing in the sun's irradiation, we should see a steep cooling in about 15-20 years. if that happens, LOL @ the hippies!

[Hartmann]

They can predict all they want... I remember when I was kid and the big thing was those six-pack soda can holders were going to kill off our fish supply. Or the big one, that we'd be out of oil by the time I was 18...

Yeah, we should be concerned about our emissions, we're putting a lot of crap into the atmosphere but to go off and blame global warming on that and only that is a little brazen. Also, I hate getting only half of the facts.

Even though a lot of the earth is experiencing a warming trend, parts are experiencing a cooling trend. There is glacial loss in some places and glacial growth in Switzerland and Norway. The polar bear population is actually growing out of control (instead of dying off as predicted) and oddly enough, the sun hasn't exploded yet.

Yes, do something about emissions but stop Al Gore from being the spokesperson for it.