Earth, Mars, Neptune Warming ? Sheryl Crow Recommends 1/2 Square of Toilet Paper To Save Uranus
Did you know there’s industrialized life on Mars and Neptune? There has to be. Recent reports show that global warming is on the rise dramatically on Neptune, and ice caps are melting on Mars.
There must be relatively intelligent but ecologically stupid life on these planets flying jets, driving SUV’s and using aerosol hairspray. As Al Gore teaches us, there is no other way for global warming to occur.
In the meantime, expect environmental activists to mobilize to save the other planets that are being ruined. Soon we might see Sheryl Crow’s “Concert for Uranus,” where she will ask us to go from using the one square of toilet paper per her earlier request, to 1/2 square, in order to keep this looming tragedy on Neptune from striking neighboring planets.
How bad is it? Here’s the latest photograph of the surface of Neptune, as taken from the New Horizons spacecraft:
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May 31st, 2007 at 9:30 am
Don’t Blame Sun for Global Warming, Study Says (from the same source as “ice caps are melting on Mars”)
Here’s the problem with Neptune: the graph shows the planet has brightened by 0.13 magnitudes, which amounts to a part in eight. However, the solar irradiance increase shown in the other graph is 0.028%, or a part in 3600. Scaling the y-axis of the graphs differently masks the huge difference. For the solar data to be able to account for the Nepture data, one has to suppose some amplifying mechanism in the planet’s atmosphere giving a gain of about 450. We know next to nothing about the atmosphere of Neptune.
It’s much easier to account for the Neptune measures by either a) systemic problems with accurately calibrating photometric data over decades (eg, the early data comes from an era which used entirely different equipment and techniques than is in use now); or b) an increase in the amount of highly reflective clouds in Neptune’s atmosphere. Again, we know next to nothing about the atmosphere of Neptune, so it’s a bit premature to suggest it somehow solves the whole global warming thing, especially when we do in fact know that we’ve increased the amount of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere by 35-40% over the last 150 years.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:46 am
How is it that a Martian, Bachelor or otherwise, is commenting on Neptune and no comments about Mars? Come on. What are you hiding?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:53 am
Sphlurrfff…
Sorry… just spit up some of my Diet Coke. That was funny.
June 1st, 2007 at 5:15 am
MartianBeeatchelor, how can someone spit out so much scientific sounding ‘data’ and come out sounding completely uneducated? Oh, yeah. I forgot. You worship at the altar of AlGore.
June 1st, 2007 at 11:34 am
Yea, ad hominem verbiage really changes the way the data look… Scientists argue about interpretation of facts all the time, but it usually doesn’t end up devolving into epithets like on The View.
Amfortas, I didn’t comment on Mars because I’ve done so already several times around here, and because my comment was long enough as it was. The Sun is well enough studied that there’s no reason getting distracted by Mars or any other planet while seeking to make global warming go away. The tiny measured variation in the Sun’s output is included in the climate models and makes very little difference.
June 1st, 2007 at 11:53 am
MB, if what you say is true, then it does need to be addressed. I’ve read the opinions and writings of several AWG skeptics, from claiming that the CO2 ice core measurements are incorrect to claiming that the sun is the primary force driving warming. Unfortunately, their critics do point out flaws in their graphs/data/techniques. Your analysis of the present graphs is one such.
I’m not an AGW cheerleader by a long shot. And I am absolutely convinced this represents the best opportunity for the globalists to seize the reigns of power. Men like Jacques Chirac and Maurice Strong admit as much. However, I’d like to see a little better work done on the part of the skeptics.
June 1st, 2007 at 6:12 pm
MartianBachelor said,
Scientists argue about interpretation of facts all the time, but it usually doesn’t end up devolving into epithets like on The View.
Really? So a very loud obnoxious call for “any meteorologist who doesn’t tow the GW line should be fired” doesn’t involve ‘devolving’?
Your link above didn’t contain any real data, and if it were looked at with an open mind, actually goes against your religion of ‘climate change’. At the end it admits as much.
Plus, your little diatribe totally misses the obvious – if all observed objects in a closed system are increasing in temperature there must be a common cause. Occam’s razor says so. Coming up with obfuscations is pretty childish.