The emerging Martian consumer market is definitely one I need to begin exploring... I should probably check the data before promulgating these kinds of stories, but the laugh factor is high.
Fred Thompson, Republican Presidential Candidate on Global Warming, "Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto. NASA says that the Martian South Pole's ice cap has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter's caught the same cold, because it's warming up too, like Pluto. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle. Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our solar system have in common. Hmmmm. Solar system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn't even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There's a consensus. Ask Galileo."
-- Paul Harvey Show, April 13, 2007
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Hilarious! I actually have a comment... according to my geological/meteorological background, ice ages and global warmin comes in cycles. We have record of at least one ice age and we definetly have record of at least one episode of global warming (that should explain to anyone reading this why we arent walking on glaciers right now). According to the cycle pattern, we should have descended into an ice age years ago... some time around... (take a wild guess?)...the time of the industrial revolution. In any case, we are in the middle of global warming when we should be in the middle of an ice age... is that right? Well approximately it seems... what was my point? Oh yes, why arent scientists using this approximate "cycle analysis" of extreme weather (I am not sure of the correct terminology here) to help comvey the idea of global warming? The very probable "fact" that we've screwed up the cycle, missed the ice age (a good thing some may say), gone into an anticipated global warming and now have no way to recreate the patter (for the sake of science) and have no idea what to expect (for the sake of civilization)... Ok, thoughts Mr. Steven Morse? Help me get a clue here.
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