Mars Attacks

I realize that this is an unsettling synthesis of a post I made a little while ago. But I just love this global warming conversation so damn much.

Be prepared for Al Gore's and David Suzuki to start screaming about how the Western world is threatening the existence of little green men, because according to an article at nationalgeographic.com, Mars is apparently heating up as well.

SOME, like the article's author, may wish to point out that, seeing as how Mars and Earth are neighbours in our vast solar system, the problem of global warming may be a universal concern in every sense (not simply the sense that Suzuki's affection for ruining the economy is "universal".)

This is why more investigation needs to be undertaken before a country decides to align itself with a sketchy proposal like Kyoto. The science is simply not strong enough at this point to merit massive economic changes in the interest of slowing the world's cooling rate, changes that could ultimately stick the Western world with a bill that it didn't really run up.

Granted, the article itself demonstrates that this scientist's theories are not all entirely accepted. He denies the existence of greenhouse gas build-up, for instance. I'm certianly not about to deny that humans dump massive amounts of chemicals into the atmosphere, but whether or not they are responsible for the warming, or that we mere humans could REVERSE the trend of a planet as old and complex as Earth, seems to require a bit more investigation. One must take into account other factors, like volcano carbon emissions (which could double the amount of human emission) or sun flares/spots.

But anyway, that's my two cents for today.