Ghosts Of Climate Past


	Ghosts Of Climate Past

aizwaikcha

6-14-2007 4:14 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c34a16df-45f6-4bf5-9f55-34146232149a/7A541491-8C14-4AB4-BDFE-34C3F3494E65/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/06/ghosts_of_climates_past.php" href="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/06/ghosts_of_climates_past.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.seedmagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/06/ghosts_of_climates_past.php"><P class="deck">Can studying the red deserts of Mars, the thick atmosphere of Venus, and the methane seas of Titan help us to predict our own planet's climatic future?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/06/ghosts_of_climates_past.php">Spacecraft studies of Earth's neighbors in the solar system have revealed that both of our near-neighbor planets, Venus and Mars, once enjoyed Earthlike environments at some time in their past, until each underwent a change of climate that would have been fatal for any surface life. What we have learned from our celestial investigations is that there are many processes that can doom a once mild planet to an eternity of fire or ice. As we come to know more about these planetary histories, and as we now incorporate new information about recent space probes, Earth's relative climate stability over billions of years stands out as an anomaly.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/06/ghosts_of_climates_past.php">The Earth's climate is warming. No one knows exactly what effects this gradual change will ultimately have on our planet, but that does not mean we have no way of finding out.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7A541491-8C14-4AB4-BDFE-34C3F3494E65/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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