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Originally Posted by Tchocky
Warming on Triton, or Pluto, or Jupiter doesnt affect the argument on Earth so much. I'm no astronomer, nor am I a climatologist, but we've only been observing Pluto for what equates to three months of it's annual weather cycle. Planets/asteroids/moons differ. Jupiter is a gas giant that sends out twice as much heat as it receives from the sun, Pluto's year lasts 248 Earth years.
There's a phrase that involves apples and oranges which I might use.
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Add Mars to that list as well as this 2003 study:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ut_030320.html
But hey, maybe all this has nothing to do with Earths global warming, it just seems to me that there is a pretty serious effort, mostly by non scientists, to attack the credibility of anyone who postulates that global warming might be caused by anything besides human activity and that smacks of politics with all the ulterior motives that it implies.
I'm old enough to remember a time when very similar people, again mostly non scientists, did the same things to those who believed we weren't headed into an ice age. Same tactics, same often unfounded accusations of payoffs and bias, same instant dismissal of opposing evidence. It's just way too familiar to me to take the current warming hysteria without a rather large grain of salt.
[quote]Nice display of "what she said + pithy insult" though, guys.[/quote
Thanks, I suppose, but what i said was not meant as an insult, but rather a challenge to those in this thread who have argued so forcefully for human activity as the cause of global warming. A challenge that, so far, no one has even attempted to meet and I think that silence means their arguments aren't as strong as they'd like us to believe.