Let us no more speak of little green men on Mars. From now on, they're little green bastards:
A study of the ice caps on Mars may show that the red planet is experiencing a warming trend.After decades of thinking that the ice caps on Mars were mostly carbon dioxide (dry ice), planetary geologists are starting to think that those caps may be mostly fresh water ice instead.
Caltech planetary scientists have been keeping a close eye on the dozens of deep, wide pits in the southern martian ice caps. These pits have been growing larger every year, but they never get any deeper.
The scientists believe this means that there is a layer of dry ice that is evaporating off of a thicker layer of water ice. The yearly increases in evaporation may be caused by a global warming trend happening on Mars.
If both Mars and Earth are experiencing global warming, then perhaps there is a larger phenomenon going on in the Solar System that is causing their global climates to change.
I'm not going to let them off the hook that easy. Let me be first to not pull any punches and to lay the blame exactly where it belongs: The melting of the ice caps on Mars is martianogenic in origin. Little. green. bastards.
But the Martians are going to have to fix their own problems. We've got our own biscuits in the oven right here on Gaia -- and they're going to be incinerated by global warming. No, no; you won't be able to just scrape the burned parts off and soften things up with extra butter. Our biscuits are going to be charred beyond recognition; just like the bad drivers in the those Driver's Ed films they showed us in high school.
Speaking of charring, here's someone I'd like to put in a rocket and launch into the Sun: Christian Science Monitor contributor Julia Gorin of Las Vegas. On second thought, since she's in Vegas I might not have to go to the expense. I'll just make her ride the Big Shot at high noon in summer. Same difference.
Gorin has the idea that all this global warming activism is nothing but displacement:
Tough language is borrowed from the war on terror and applied to the war on weather. "I really consider this a national security issue," says celebrity activist and "An Inconvenient Truth" producer Laurie David. "Truth" star Al Gore calls global warming a "planetary emergency." Bill Clinton's first worry is climate change: "It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it."Freud called it displacement. People fixate on the environment when they can't deal with real threats. Combating the climate gives nonhawks a chance to look tough. They can flex their muscle for Mother Nature, take a preemptive strike at an SUV. Forget the Patriot Act, it's Kyoto that'll save you.
That's why in 2004 we got "The Day After Tomorrow" - so we could worry about junk science that may or may not kill us in 1,000 years instead of the people who really are trying to kill us the day after tomorrow.
She then goes on to imply that blaming America as the "chief culprit in the axis of enviro-evil " is like punching a pillow when you're too afraid to punch who you're really mad at.
Nonsense. It's just the latest thing in a long, long list that America is to blame for.
We could even help Mars if we wanted too. We're the ones with all the space technology, after all. But we won't. All the Martian children in those underground cities will be croaking out the Martian word for "water" and we won't bother to lift a finger to help them.
Because that's how we are.
(Via Lucianne.)
Posted by floridacracker at July 15, 2006 01:12 AMyou damn right that's how we are..
and as long as the hawks are in charge of the nonhawks that's how its gonna be...UNLESS some nonhawk wants to talk about it-
I didn't think so.
wonder what the Martian Freud has to say bout that ?
the REAL reason Mars is warming up the same as us is simple
We have installed boo koo rovers on the surface of
delicate, lacy, fragile, pristine Mars. THEY are the culprits-and that of course is GWB's fault...space program indeed, more like Torch the universe program.
That's what the real secretly renamed version of NASA is, after Homeland Security was formed.
National Annihilation of Special Anti-Freezing somehting or other (sry couldn't put it together)
you know, I don't think anybody ever noticed that big ass hurricane on the surface of Mars until AFTER Gore had the presidency swept out of his grasp..and no one else sees the link between that
and Katrina ?? C'mon people.
And that's not all - if those stupid Martians had the good sense to wrap their Polar bears in tin foil, then they'd still have some left. Idiots.
Posted by: tfhr at July 15, 2006 10:09 AM