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| Subject: I know you hate facts that don't fit your goofy ideas | |
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Author: Oropan |
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Date Posted: 08:58:09 05/01/07 Tue In reply to: Stephen 's message, "And so what?" on 07:38:31 05/01/07 Tue "This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period." >Ya know how some people just cannot be wrong? They >will seek out and say anecdotal facts in attemopts to >prove their long-disproven point. They just won't give >it up and move on. > >What makes some people that way? So un-intellegent and >inflexible. > > >>I guess they need to drive tinyer cars on Mars! >> >>From The Sunday TimesApril 29, 2007 >> >>Climate change hits Mars >>Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is >>happening so fast that the red planet could lose its >>southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake. >> >>Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about >>0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming >>experienced on Earth over approximately the same >>period. >> >>Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid >>changes in planetary climates could be natural >>phenomena. >> >>The mechanism at work on Mars appears, however, to be >>different from that on Earth. One of the researchers, >>Lori Fenton, believes variations in radiation and >>temperature across the surface of the Red Planet are >>generating strong winds. >> >>In a paper published in the journal Nature, she >>suggests that such winds can stir up giant dust >>storms, trapping heat and raising the planet’s >>temperature. >> >>Fenton’s team unearthed heat maps of the Martian >>surface from Nasa’s Viking mission in the 1970s and >>compared them with maps gathered more than two decades >>later by Mars Global Surveyor. They found there had >>been widespread changes, with some areas becoming >>darker. >> >>When a surface darkens it absorbs more heat, >>eventually radiating that heat back to warm the thin >>Martian atmosphere: lighter surfaces have the opposite >>effect. The temperature differences between the two >>are thought to be stirring up more winds, and dust, >>creating a cycle that is warming the planet. >> >> >>href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article >1 >>720024.ece">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/a >r >>ticle1720024.ece [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |