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Human Activity and Martian Global Warming

Newspaper current event by Brandon on 13 April 2007, tagged as pithy

There's no question about it; Mars is getting hotter. Measurements taken of the brightness of the red planet's surface recently revealed the global temperature has rocketed up some 0.65°C over just a few decades. Going by these results, the Martian polar ice caps could be completely melted in under 500 years.

While Earth's neighbor has no known oceans or vegetation to affect climate change, it has experienced one very thermally influential factor within the last 30 years. No, not the sun - unprecedented levels of human interaction! "Since the 1960s, NASA has focused on exploring mars." Given the effect this "exploring" has had on Martian warming, "exploiting Mars" is more like it.

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Well it can't be the traffic by galton :: NR4 :: on 14 April 2007

There are only two SUVs on Mars, and both of those have zero-emissions.