The only cult ignoring looking at outside sources are the global warming alarmists. That or the civilization on Mars is suffering from to much CO2 being pumped into their atmosphere causing their ice caps to shrink also. Oh wait!!!!! There isn't a civilization on Mars is there... Maybe it's because the solar radiation increased and now it's decreasing and that's why a prominent Russian institution is saying we're now in a period of global cooling. Contrary to what you cultist wish to promote.
Mars isn't warming. I guess that's another thing that your cult failed to inform you about.
Not to worry. I'm sure by now you must be very used to reality shooting you down.
So is there any cult myth that you haven't fallen for? Even one?
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.
In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.
"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.
More 'unsettled science' -- I suppose...
Global warming on Mars, ice caps melting
Climate Myth...
Mars is warming
"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." (
Fred Thompson).
It is hard to understand how anyone could claim global warming is happening on Mars when we can’t even agree what’s happening on the planet we live on. Yet they do, and the alleged reasoning is this; if other planets are warming up, then there is some solar system-wide phenomena at work – and therefore that it isn’t human activity causing climate change here on Earth.
The broadest counter argument depends on a simple premise: we know so little about Mars that it's impossible to say what trends in climate the planet is experiencing, or why changes occur. We do have information from various orbiting missions and the few lander explorations to date, yet even this small amount of data has been misunderstood, in terms of causal complexity and significance.
There are a few basic points about the climate on Mars that are worth reviewing:
- Planets do not orbit the sun in perfect circles, sometimes they are slightly closer to the sun, sometimes further away. This is called orbital eccentricity and it contributes far greater changes to Martian climate than to that of the Earth because variations in Mars' orbit are five times greater than the Earth.
- Mars has no oceans and only a very thin atmosphere, which means there is very little thermal inertia – the climate is much more susceptible to change caused by external influences.
- The whole planet is subject to massive dust storms, and these have many causal effects on the planet’s climate, very little of which we understand yet.
- We have virtually no historical data about the climate of Mars prior to the 1970s, except for drawings (and latterly, photographs) that reveal changes in gross surface features (i.e. features that can be seen from Earth through telescopes). It is not possible to tell if current observations reveal frequent or infrequent events, trends or outliers.
And the TSI is not increasing, it is decreasing. That has been posted here many times, the charts from the solar observing satellites. That you would post a 'scientist' that says it is increasing is evidence that you are out of touch with reality.