Global Warming Blamed for Thawing of Southern Ice Cap… On Mars

Science News

The overall darkening of Mars’ surface in recent decades has significantly raised the Red Planet’s temperature, a possible cause for the substantial shrinkage of the planet’s southern ice cap, observed in the past few years. More

23 Comments on Global Warming Blamed for Thawing of Southern Ice Cap… On Mars

  1. Why not? The solution is taxpayers handing over everything they own to the favored few who can travel between their mansions on yachts and private jets between stop offs to lecture us.

    12
  2. Yeah, sure bullshit. Has anyone asked the Barsoomians to find out if this is true. They need to call John Carter assuming that he’s still alive living someplace in Virginia incognito.

    7
  3. The Green Scamandians at it again I see. They are so obtuse that they cannot connect the dots on what the common denominator between the earth and Mars might be…. may I suggest that they step out of their mother’s basements and look to the sky for a hint?

    OT: when are going to stop the “we’re gonna terraform Mars” baulderdash? Mars has neither the gravity to create nor the magnetic field to retain an atmosphere.

    4
  4. I wonder how many asteroids one would have to crash into Mars in order to create enough gravity to get the planet heated up and spinning fast enough to remelt the core to generate enough of a magnetic field to protect a viable atmosphere.

    Seems pretty far-fetched, but there will be no terraforming of the red planet until the pesky detail of no protective magnetic field shielding the planet from the solar wind.

    3
  5. Terraforming Mars could be done, I firmly believe, if it is enclosed in a huge, bigger diameter than Mars HUGE, plexiglass dome around the whole planet. That would trap oxygen inside and then Human Martians could grow stuff and breathe.

    It’s like illustrations in old 1950’s Popular Science for Misfits magazines that showed entire cities under plexiglass domes. They usually had titles like: The Future Cities of 1960.

    1

Comments are closed.