Global Warming On Mars

The Houston Chronicle reports:

Long-running observations by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars are revealing subtle signs of seismic activity on the Red Planet and possibly a slow warming trend, scientists said Tuesday.
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"Mars is experiencing climate change, or has experienced climate change..." [researcher] Malin said. "Sometime in the distant past, Mars was colder. Subsequent to that, it has warmed, and we are seeing the earlier deposits erode away."

Read it here.

Oh my! I had no idea that Karl Rove's evil influence extended that far! It seems that not only the fate of the Earth, but that of the entire solar system hangs in the balance.

Seriously, Sallie Baliunas [pictured above] has been telling us for years that a major component in global warming is changes in solar output. This would seem to support her contention. I believe her because I've had a couple of chances to meet and talk with her at length, and she's convinced me. She's an incredibly bright and accomplished astrophysicist and we grew up reading the same SF authors -- so she has good literary taste too. Here's her Wikipedia entry.

SPEAKING OF SALLIE:

She has a devastating review of Ross Gelbspan's latest alarmist tract in Reason Online [here]