It’s been recently published that the temperature of Neptune has warmed from 1980 to 2004 and appears to correlate with the temperature changes on Earth. In addition, Mars may be experiencing a similar warming trend as indicated by it’s melting southern ice caps.
As far as we know man has never been to either of these planets and it doesn’t appear likely that SUV’s are being used. So what is to explain this warming trend that so closely parallels Earths?
H.B. Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., and G.W. Lockwood of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. believe that the changes might be solar-driven.
“If changing brightnesses and temperatures of two different planets are correlated, then some planetary climate changes may be due to variations in the solar system environment,”
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Pertersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russian, thinks that:
The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars.
But then they’re only scienctist. Perhaps it’s time to send Al Gore on an environmental mission to Mars and Neptune. ;-)
We’re still a long ways from understanding the full effect of the forces that control or influence our environment, but it sounds like there could be something bigger then mankind at work here.
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LOL! That could be: “An inconvenient mission!” :-) Well, maybe he could invent the Internet on Mars or Neptune! It’s probably Bush’s fault that the temperatures are rising on this planets, too! Fun stuff!!!