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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: longnshort who wrote (314433)12/7/2006 9:32:07 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (3) of 1572460
 
Good article. Provides an alternative view. The article states a couple of very interesting things. 1) Mars and Pluto may be warming due to internal processes as well as due to the Sun and 2) only 10-30% of Earth's warming is due to the Sun. So what do you think the other 70-90% of Earth's warming is due to? You guessed it...human industrial activity. So your own article lays bare the fact that solar cycles are NOT causing all of the warming on Earth. Quotes from your article:

Sallie Baliunas, chair of the Science Advisory Board at the George C. Marshall Institute, said, "Pluto, like Mars, is also undergoing warming." However, Baliunas speculated it is "likely not the sun but long-term processes on Mars and Pluto" causing the warming. However, until more information is gathered, Baliunas said, it is difficult to know for sure.

Pat Michaels, past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, similarly expressed a desire for more information about the Martian climate. "What is the internal dynamic that is warming Mars?" asked Michaels. "Given the fact that there are not a lot of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on Mars, and given the fact that new research indicates that 10 to 30 percent estimated conservatively of Earth's recent warming is due to increased solar output, the Martian warming may support that new research."
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