[geeks] Global Warming causes...

[wa2egp at att.net]

> should one read all the news reports from the investigations of mars, you
> would see that major news outlets are reporting that mars is warming.
> these reports are coming out of the field of astronomy and space
> exploration.

Do these news article cite their references?  The news tends to pick what
makes good copy.

> the sun is listed as the cause for the warming of mars.
> scientists have found photographic evidence of liquids (possibly water)
> where none existed in the 1990s.

They have better resolution pictures now so they can see formations that
appear to be created by liquid water and there have been investigations
into the possiblility of other ways these formation could have been created
on that planet that may not be seen here.  This has been discussed in
Scintific American and other journals.

> i guess these scientists have invested in lots of tinfoil, huh!
> the trend among news release is that global warming, while true, is not
> caused by human activity but solar activity.
> scientists have been predicted a cooling of the earth since the 1970's--i
> didn't read a lot before that so i don't know about earlier.

Some have made the prediction, not all.  Which is funny because the records
have shown the global average has been increasing for about a hundred years.
The "media" will "print" whatever makes good copy.    

> no ad homien (sp?) attacks please.  they are poor rhertoric (and this is not
> a political debate, is it?)

Actually this is a political debate.  Certainly not scientific.  :) 

> Science sucks!  science is good!

Actually science is neither good or bad.  The application of the knowledge
is what is good or bad.

Bob