Are the melting polar ice caps due to man-made global warming?

Thank you! Didn't you know our pollution is so bad that it has reached out across space and is heating Mars? I also love that one article I read about it claimed scientists were 'alarmed' about it. What possible reason would they have for being alarmed that the ice caps on Mars were melting? The only thing I can think of is if they had an agenda on earth and this was evidence that something other than human activity is causing global warming.

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As for the other part, that's easy.

Mars has what is know as 'seasonal' ice caps, they are always melting, transfering in size to the opposite cap and visa versa. The confusion about this comes from several Astronomy sites and even NASA and Space.com which have posted articles stating that the caps are melting... better hurry up and watch the event through your backyard telescopes, etc.

What's going on with Mars has nothing to do with what is going on here. To look at it one other way, if our 5 billion year old sun was for some reason getting warmer or acting up in some way, in any way we would notice it in our speck of time we've existed, then that change would be rather significant. Point being, we're not going to see any important change with the sun that woudn't still be there a million years from now, let alone a few years from now.

Now do yourself a favor and look a the world head line news for the day - the debate is officially over. PS - even the President has admitted the truth.

The ice inside the Arctic Circle, but not the Antarctic Circle has been shrinking most summers for about 10,000 years. With the soil exposed, less light is reflected, which hurries the melting. The rest of Earth has warmed about one degree c in the past 112 years or their abouts, on the average; possibly a long term problem, but likely only a minor inconvenience the next 50 years. Global warming is likely a secondary factor, not main. Neil

Ok once and for all . When we burn anything to generate heat be it wood , coal , oil , natural gas or the refined gas we use to operate automobiles for the most part the result is carbon is released . The same as forest fires volcanoes and methane gas from the decaying ocean life accumulating on the ocean floors and lakes . Now the only thing that converts this carbon is plant life and trees and some sea life like plankton and kelp all convert carbon to oxygen storing the carbon . We convert oxygen to carbon as we breath . So to breath we need plants and plants need carbon so its a nice balance . The problem is pumping trapped carbon out of the ground and burning it releasing the carbon into the air . SO much carbon that the amount able to be digested and converted by plants is exceeding that conversion ability . Now add in the reduction of rain forests old growth forests and killing of the coral reefs that also convert carbon to oxygen and you can see where we are headed . This is what i call a no brainer . If you have a brain you get it . And as those of us who do get it are begging to say it does not matter if you belief it or not it is happening . Levels have increased higher over the last 100 years to a point that has never been seen before . Average global temperatures have risen like it or not and it is having an effect . In fact we have not been this warm in 3,000,000 years Thats around 2,750,000 more years then anything like man roamed the planet . If we warm up to fast it is not that we will not survive it is that 60% of us will not survive . Starvation and wars may lead to even less then that if China or the Usa say screw you we are taking the food and attack russia who is now growing crops in Siberia .They may launch nuclear weapons . So this is a major world problem and I will be gone by the time the crap hits the fan so listen now and begin to correct this problem .

Destroying hemp may have lead to this . The hemp plant converts carbon at a high rate and releases little back in effect scrubbing the carbon from the air . And when burned and inhaled provides a mellowing effect and joyfulness . Keep your head down in the sand and get out of the way and let people with solutions act before it is to late .

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though my field is not astronomy I will attempt to answer your question. There is a new theory that 10-30% of our warming trend on Earth is due to increased solar output. This is backed by data that astronomers recieved from 1999-2005 documenting changes in the Martian ice caps. There is also an assertion that Pluto is also warming up due to this increased solar output. Many scientist have theorized that there may be a thermogenic cycle that the sun goes through that increases and decreases output, which can account for many climate shifts the Earth has had in her past, however much of this information is supposition since there is not nearly enough data to make an accurate conclusion. Or maybe Mars was colonized at one time by humanoids that also were environmentally irresponsible and destroyed their home planet and the cycle of destruction was so irreversable that it continues to happen....who knows. Until concrete evidence shows up, both theories above hold some weight, no?

READ: 10-30%

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http://www.heartland.org/article.cfm?art...

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*** This in no way eliminates evidence that the RATE of climate change on the earth has increased dramatically in collusion with the exponential population increase and emission of "greenhouse" gases... read thoroughly...10-30% of increased solar output is the THEORY that many scientists hold. That does not account for the other 70-90%

Yes.

And there are no men on Mars so of course man made global warming isn't happening on Mars. Martian ice caps melt seasonally lol.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/07aug_sout...

I think global warming occurs regardless but is accelerated drastically by MAN.

Mother Earth is warming, this I know,

For the liberal media tells me so.

If we don't change we're going to die,

As holes keep forming in the sky.

We must control our population,

Even if it takes forced sterilization.

Evil commerce must be banned,

Though many jobs would then be canned.

The mighty Earth we must laud,

It is our king, it is our god.

All this great land only we can sustain

'Lest our shoddy science be proven vain.

So what to do? Please hold your breath,

Earth can't survive without your death!

No. The temperatures have always been fluctuating.

Doesn't everyone remember in the 1970's when these same wacko "scientists" were predicting another ice age?

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i dont think anybody claims global warming is man-made....its man accelerated.