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Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report


Data coincide with increasing solar output


Written By: James M. Taylor


Published In: Environment News


Publication Date: November 1, 2005


Publisher: The Heartland Institute








The planet Mars is undergoing significant global warming, new data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) show, lending support to many climatologists' claims that the Earth's modest warming during the past century is due primarily to a recent upsurge in solar energy.








Martian Ice Shrinking Dramatically





According to a September 20 NASA news release, "for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress." Because a Martian year is approximately twice as long as an Earth year, the shrinking of the Martian polar ice cap has been ongoing for at least six Earth years.





The shrinking is substantial. According to Michael Malin, principal investigator for the Mars Orbiter Camera, the polar ice cap is shrinking at "a prodigious rate."





"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," reported Yahoo News on September 20.








Solar Link Possible





Scientists are not sure whether the Martian warming is entirely due to Mars-specific forces or may be the result of other forces, such as increasing solar output, which would explain much of the recent asserted warming of the Earth as well.





Sallie Baliunas, chair of the Science Advisory Board at the George C. Marshall Institute, said, "Pluto, like Mars, is also undergoing warming." However, Baliunas speculated it is "likely not the sun but long-term processes on Mars and Pluto" causing the warming. However, until more information is gathered, Baliunas said, it is difficult to know for sure.





Pat Michaels, past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, similarly expressed a desire for more information about the Martian climate. "What is the internal dynamic that is warming Mars?" asked Michaels. "Given the fact that there are not a lot of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on Mars, and given the fact that new research indicates that 10 to 30 percent estimated conservatively of Earth's recent warming is due to increased solar output, the Martian warming may support that new research."








Models May Be Wrong





The new research mentioned by Michaels is the October 2 release of findings by Duke University scientists that "at least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output rather than factors such as increased heat-absorbing carbon dioxin gas released by various human activities."





"The problem is that Earth's atmosphere is not in thermodynamic equilibrium with the sun," Duke associate research scientist Nicola Scafetta explained in a Duke University news release. Moreover, "the longer the time period [that the Earth's atmosphere is not in thermodynamic equilibrium] the stronger the effect will be on the atmosphere, because it takes time to adapt."





Examining a 22-year interval of reliable solar data going back to 1980, the Duke scientists were able to filter out shorter-range effects that can influence surface temperatures but are not related to global warming. Such effects include volcanic eruptions and ocean current changes such as El Niño.





Applying their long-term data, the Duke scientists concluded, "the sun may have minimally contributed about 10 to 30 percent of the 1980-2002 global surface warming."





"[Greenhouse] gases would still give a contribution, but not so strong as was thought," Scafetta observed.








Several Forces Affect Temperature





"We don't know what the sun will do in the future," Scafetta added. "For now, if our analysis is correct, I think it is important to correct the climate models so that they include reliable sensitivity to solar activity."





Iain Murray, senior fellow and global warming specialist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the Mars warming adds another level of uncertainty to claims that the Earth's modest recent warming is a result of human activity. "It is probably too much to claim that any one source is the principal driver of the warming trend on Earth," said Murray.





"The number of significant temperature forcings on the climate system grows yearly as we get to know more and more about it, but we really are at a very early stage of our exploration of this very complex system," Murray noted. "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. In which case, one might say, thank goodness for global warming!"





James M. Taylor (taylor@heartland.org) is managing editor of Environment %26amp; Climate News.





For more information ...





The September 30 news release announcing the findings of the Duke University research, "Sun's Direct Role in Global Warming May Be Underestimated, Duke Physicists Report," is available online at http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/09/sun...

Waht are we going to do about the SUV Driving republican martians?
", lending support to many climatologists' claims that the Earth's modest warming during the past century is due primarily to a recent upsurge in solar energy."





That bit of journalistic fluff--along with the rest of the nonsense you posted--is a deliberate misrepresentation of what scientists have actually said.





Global warming--and its human origins--is an established fact. Propaganda and falsifying what scientists say is not going to change that.





As for what to do about Republicans and theier SUVVs--I think a tax equal to $2000 for every mpg below the national average for all cars should be about right. That would add about $10000 to the price of an SUV. If these irresponsible jerks want to dump pollution into the atmosphere we all must share, they can damn well start paying for it.
Reply:If you were paying attention--instead of looking for a way to shore up bogus propaganda, you'd know NASA also found the reason for the Mars warming is a planetary climate shift that casues an increase in dust storms. The dust behaves like a greenhouse gas--trapping heat. Report It

Reply:It is not caused by dust storms. That is just speculation by global warming theorists that refuse to accept the fact that the entire solar system is warming. Report It

Reply:Bush family,





Kudos to you!!





Yeah I agree, It's already been analyzed and concluded, that the earth was warmer in 30's than it is today, It was '36 when the entire east was in a massive drought, and the sun baked ground was causing more radiation to bounce back, as it could not be absorbed! Report It

Reply:100% true. The Global Warming Hoax can no longer be blamed on man. All of the planets in the solar system have global warming, including Pluto which is no longer a planet.





And the IPCC has said there will not be massive flooding like what Al Gore's movie says. They say the ocean will rise by 2 feet at most.





And new data from brand new solar satellites show that the temperature of the sun is constantly changing. Also, the strongest solar flares on record have been happening during the past decade.





NASA says the sun caused the earth to leave the great ice age in less than 20 years. 20 years is like a second. And there is nothing humans can do to change how the sun changes the temperature of the earth.





The man-made global warming theory has not been proven true. The IPCC only reached a "CONSENSUS" and that proves nothing. There is a lead IPCC author that disagrees with the theory. Video: http://en.sevenload.com/videos/ha4PoKY/T...





Because of a recently launced satellite, we now know the sun's temperature is changing constantly. http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kriqm3DIT...





"The sun is heading into a new season of turbulent solar activity. Just like its seasonal hurricane predictions, on April 25, 2007, the National Oceanic and" http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/...





NASA: "Rapid changes between ice ages and warm periods (called interglacials) are recorded in the Greenland ice sheet. Occurring over ONE OR TWO DECADES, the warming of the Earth at the end of the last ice age happened much faster than the rate of change of the Earth’s orbit."


NASA link: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/P...





NASA data has proved that the "Little Ice Age" was caused by less light reaching the earth ("solar variability", which means changes in the sun). NASA's data about the little ice age: http://tinyurl.com/227h3p (This data can be copied and pasted it into Excel to chart it.)








Other facts:


1) 6,000 years ago, the earth was hotter than it is today. 6,000 years is less than a second when compared with the age of the earth.


2) Temperatures dropped in the 1950's and 1990's when CO2 levels were increasing.


3) 140,000 years ago the earth had record CO2 levels and there were no gasoline powered cars.


4) 20,000 years ago, Canada was one big ice cube and half of the U.S. was covered with Ice. The grand canyon was formed by melting ice ages over 20 million years.


5) The temperature of the Earth has only increased by 0.65 of a degree in the last 110 years. There were faster increases in temperatures around 10,000 years ago and there were no gasoline powered cars during that time.


6) Strong hurricanes are normal. Hundreds of years ago, they used to sink ships off of the coast of Florida.
Reply:Obviously, AL Gore needs to have a concert up there. The sooner the better.
Reply:well its clear now, al gore has been there and created global warming there too, i bet he has his sights set on uranus next....
Reply:Beautiful!





The Alarmist could learn something afterall!
Reply:I think the next time I pass a martian in my big SUV I might have to give him a ride. Or is that a dead head on the side of the road? With my foot down on the gas to burn oil I am not sure. But I wonder if he saw my I love big oil bumper sticker?