It's the Sun, stupid!

[darrelx]

More recent observations indicate that Mars' south pole is continuing to melt. "It's evaporating right now at a prodigious rate," says Michael Malin, principal investigator for the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC). The pits in the ice are growing by about 3 meters per year. Malin states that conditions on Mars are not currently conductive to the

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[martes]

We better pray to whatever deity is out there that it's not the sun. If we're causing climate change, there's a vague hope we might be able to stop it. If the sun is causing it, then there's not a goddamn thing we can do about it and we're all screwed.

[darrelx]

Best evidence is that it's cyclical, and there's probably not a thing we can do about it, except adapt.

...We're good at adapting. We survived a mini ice-age just 600 years ago.

[martes]

I don't think any of us would have had fun living 600 years ago. Life was ugly, brutal and short then. There were also a lot less people, and more room to move somewhere else when land became incabable of supporting life

[esprix]

Since there's a sizable amount of scientific evidence that global warming is at the very least something that future generations will have to worry about, do you really think it's appropriate to just say, "Never mind, we'll be dead and gone, let *them* figure it out?"

[martes]

I was being sarcastic/ironic.

[esprix]

Ah, well, never mind, then. :)