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PARIS -- Global warming could be heating Mars four times faster than Earth due to a mutually reinforcing interplay of wind-swept dust and changes in reflected heat from the Sun, according a study released Wednesday.
Scientists have long observed a correlation on Mars between its fluctuating temperatures -- which range from -87 C to - 5 C (-125 F to 23 F) depending on the season and the location -- and the darkening or lightening of swathes of the planet's surface.
Originally posted by apc
Unfortunately this and the previous studies showing warming on Mars can not be 100% conclusive as much of the data is extrapolated projections and not actually recorded. Also noteworthy is 4 years worth of polar icecap observations is hardly sufficient to call a trend.
However, this data combined with other warming observations on other planets in the solar system, including Pluto (it's a planet damnit!), does point to a system wide change.
Mars' orbit is more elliptical than Earth's, so the difference between perihelion and aphelion is greater. Over the past centuries, Mars' orbit has been getting more and more elongated, carrying the planet even nearer to the sun at perihelion and even farther away at aphelion
Originally posted by grover
To claim that the whole solar system is experincing global warming based on 40 or 50 years worth of data is absurd.
Originally posted by grover
To claim that the whole solar system is experincing global warming based on 40 or 50 years worth of data is absurd.
You'd have a point if we didn't have 650,000 years worth of data to observe.
Originally posted by apc
Originally posted by grover
To claim that the whole solar system is experincing global warming based on 40 or 50 years worth of data is absurd.
The same can be said about anthropogenic warming.
Originally posted by supercheetah
Everyone should realize that CO2 doesn't cause global warming, it makes it worse.