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10-19-2009 5:41 PM
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Martian climate is primarily driven by dust and albedo and there is little empirical evidence that Mars is showing long term warming.

Neptune's orbit is 164 years so current brightening is a seasonal response (Neptune's southern hemisphere is heading into summer).

Triton's warming is due to the moon approaching an extreme southern summer, a season that occurs every few hundred years.

Jupiter's storms are fueled by the planet's own internal heat (the sun's energy is 4% the level of solar energy at Earth). When several storms merge into one large storm (eg - Red Spot Jr), the planet loses its ability to mix heat, causing warming at the equator and cooling at the poles.
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10-19-2009 5:51 PM
thisnamecantbetaken
Pluto's warming consists of two observations 14 years apart noting a difference in atmospheric thickness which implies warming - scientists are unable to explain why yet. But considering Pluto's orbit is equivalent to 248 Earth years, this says nothing about climate change. It's like saying Earth is warming when comparing winter to summer. Plus Pluto is more than 30 times farther away from the Sun than the Earth is. If the Sun were warming up enough to affect Pluto at that vast distance, it would blowtorch the Earth.

I have heard the GW skeptics say that there's global warming on other planets too, and I haven't really looked into that claim, so it's nothing I want to argue about, I ...
10-19-2009 6:09 PM
clip-on-tie
The BBC has an article wondering why there hasn't been an increase in the warming of our globes? It includes this:
It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.
I don’t know know who these “some” are that would say that. Is that a British thing? Do they actually say “hotting” instead of “heating”? Plus, it’s blasphemy. As we have asserted over and over, global warming climate change is settled Science! To imply that the cooling of the past decade is something scientists can’t easily explain is to speak slander against almighty Science! The p...
10-19-2009 6:28 PM
thisnamecantbetaken
Thanks for that link, clip-on, that was a really interesting read.
10-21-2009 5:59 PM
lollipop10
"why there hasn't been an increase in the warming of our globes?" well i guess all the guys are taking the advice on CM's and keeping their laptops off their laps!
i'm sorry.

@Clip-on: purty funny!
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