UPDATE: Synchronized Mars/Earth Warming Cycle?
Posted: Monday, March 5th, 2007 by damnHippyTags: Bullshit, Climate Change, Latest News, Obvious, Science
It's disturbing, but it seems like the so called conservative movement (in the U.S. at least) has whole heartedly latched onto the recent theory that the recent warming on Mars proves global warming is natural and not man-made. I think the picture to the left illustrates this best. I feel like the one on the left when I read about things like this.
Our old pal Senator Inhofe from Oklahoma is reported to have handed out flyers at this years CPAC that say Mars is experiencing global warming even without SUVs. CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Conference and was held last week in Washington D.C. I'll cover more about the events at this conference in a later post.
So, Habibullo Abdussamatov purports to have proven that there is an unequivocal link between the warming here on Earth and the warming on Mars. So being the free thinking skeptic that I am, here are a few reasons why any intelligent human being should take this man's "theory" with a grain of salt.
- The theory is being proposed by a man who isn't even a climate scientist, he's the head of an astronomical observatory in Russia.
- His work is not accepted as accurate by the majority of his peers.
- Abdussamatov even denies the existence of the greenhouse effect, which is very well known, absolute scientific fact and the reason you're alive and reading this.
- We hardly understand what's happening with our own climate much less the climate of a rock between 36 and 250 million miles away from us.
- Even on the off chance that he is correct, it does not negate the mass of widely accepted scientific research that suggests otherwise.
I can go on and on, but the truth is that this idea should be taken for what it is… an idea and not much more.
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