Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Global Warming Detected on Jupiter and Mars



Information has recently been released that for the last decade or so the planets Jupiter and Mars have been experiencing what scientist can only determine to be Global Warming. While Al Gore and his faithful continue to preach ecological Armageddon, and world governments are knocking themselves out to retool their industrial base in an effort to leave a smaller carbon footprint, Mars and Jupiter's' climates have been slowly changing. So what's the difference between Earth, Mars, and Jupiter? If your answer was no people …. Congratulations! You may now count yourself as more informed than the majority of global warming scientist. Two years ago astronomers from the University of California, Berkley and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii took several high resolution photos of Jupiter. The photos showed an increase in turbulence, and storms in Jupiter's atmosphere, photos taken earlier this month show that the storms still have not receded. Imke de Pater, professor of astronomy at U.C. Berkley referred to the images taken with the Hubble Space telescope, and the 10 meter Keck 2 telescope as a "major upheaval". These new images were first seen after Jupiter emerged from its passage behind the Sun. It is believed that these photos show that Jupiter is experiencing climate change, which astronomers predicted would happen four years ago."One of the most notable changes we observe in both the Hubble and Keck images is the change from a rather bland, quiescent band surrounding the Great Red Spot just over a year ago to one that is incredibly turbulent at both sides of the spot," de Pater stated. "During all previous HST observations and spacecraft encounters, starting with Voyager in 1979, such turbulence was seen only on the west or left side of the spot." An analysis done by Philip S. Marcus, a professor of fluid dynamics U.C. Berkley believes that these new images supports a 2004 conjecture that Jupiter is indeed experiencing Global Warming, with the planets temperature rising by at least 10 degrees Celsius, while getting warmer at the equator, and cooler at the south pole. "The appearance of the planets cloud system from just north of the equator down to 34 degrees south latitude keeps surprising us with changes and, in particular, with new cloud features that haven't been previously observed," remarked professor Marcus. "Whether or not Jupiter's climate has changed due to a predicted warming, the cloud activity over the last two and a half years shows dramatically that something unusual has happened." Let's not forget about Mars, which is experiencing climate change at such an accelerated rate, that according to scientist the planet may lose its' southern ice cap. NASA scientist claim that Mars has warmed by about 0.5 degrees Celsius since 1970. This NASA scientist say is similar to the type of warming Earth has been experiencing during the same time period. So what does all this have to do with what's happening on Earth? There're no people on either of these planets, and no industry to speak of, yet these worlds too suffer from Global Warming. So perhaps, just perhaps Global Warming is not a result of Human activity but rather a natural phenomena.

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