Anthropogenic Global Warming -- NOT

Do you believe humans are to blame for global warming? One of my favorite reasons not to believe is represented by the following news item from Reuters. (I've seen the same information in a NASA press release, but I didn't save a copy before it got yanked.) I've added some bold for emphasis.

Mars Getting Warmer, May Have Quakes


Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:39 PM ET

By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The climate on Mars is showing a warming trend and recent images have shown the first evidence of seismic activity on Earth's neighbor planet, scientists said on Tuesday.

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Malin [NASA, Michael Malin, principal investigator for the Mars Orbiter Camera] said images of Mars' southern polar cap showed that scarps formed there are retreating at "a prodigious rate" of about 10 feet per Mars year. Mars years are nearly twice as long as Earth years.

The images, documenting changes from 1999 to 2005, suggest the climate on Mars is presently warmer, and perhaps getting warmer still, than it was several decades or centuries ago just as the Earth experienced its own Ice Ages. Malin said scientists had no explanation yet as to why Mars might be warming.

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So, there you have it. Ice caps on planet earth are melting because of human activity. Why the melting of the ice caps on Mars? Anybody's guess, apparently.

Let me offer a politically-incorrect clue: both planets receive energy from the same source, the sun. If the solar output were to increase, both planets (as well as the seven others we know about and one we sort of know about) would experience a warming trend.

Just a thought.

When you mesh that with the amount of carbon dioxide produced by human activity, we begin to look pretty insignificant. Most people don't realize, for example, that permanently shutting down all motor vehicles in North America would not make a measurable difference in the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide. It doesn't even come close.

Go ahead, do the math. Somebody's counting on you not doing it. The word algore mysteriously appears in the 8-ball window...