I’m afraid I have more bad news to impart, and there’s just no way to sugarcoat it. First there were the revelations that children worldwide are losing sleep over their fears about global warming and what it’s doing to cute polar bears, and now this:
National Geographic News is reporting that polar icecaps on Mars are melting, too ? they’ve been diminishing for three straight summers now.
From the link:
Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet’s recent climate changes have a natural?and not a human- induced?cause, according to one scientist’s controversial theory. …
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 the 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.
