Mars and global warming

March 2, 2007, 10:21 am; posted by
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The south pole of MarsMars’s southern polar ice cap, seen here in true color, has shrunk in recent years due to planetary warming–similar to what’s happening on Earth.

National Geographic has a new article about global warming on our buddy back east, Mars. Unfortunately Mars doesn’t have an Arby’s so Al Gore won’t be giving this story the Miami-Dade treatment.

Global Warming (look, Ma! I put it in caps!) is one of those issues where I’m not inherently conservative. By this I mean to say I don’t come to its doorstep with any prejudice. If I felt our industrial flexing were causing this, I would be alarmed and even angered, but it’s the hijacking of a sinking ice floe for pure politics that gets my ire up and genuinely. It’s not that I don’t think ice is melting and that New York will never be Old York, New Atlantis – but when I sense something as slyly malevolent as this movement to shame us into socialism and dismiss the fact of the Great Flood (you want caps? I’ll give you caps), I do get a bit defensive. Every day they discover fossils of mammals beneath the ice at both poles. This positively yet subtly demands a halt to this frenetic argument.

The ice, friends, was not always there.

Cry/melt me a river…


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1 Comment to “Mars and global warming”

  1. Matt on March 3rd, 2007 10:07 pm

    In 1971, 1974 and 1979, National Geographic and Time Magazine had articles about our global climate. At that time scientist had studied six decades of weather paterns and learned that the global climate had been steadily getting colder and if it continued at the current rate we were heading rapidly towards another ice age. Parts of the north pole that he been open water were now solid ice.

    Funny how things change.

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