Global Warming Mostly Confirmed - On Mars 325
dinotrac writes "A just-completed 23 month study, carried out over the course of a Martian year, found that the Martian polar ice caps are rapidly eroding, sending large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the Martian atmosphere. If this pattern continues over time, Mars could go from a planet whose winters are cold enough for dry-ice snow to having a shirt sleeve atmosphere. Humans would still have to provide for oxygen, but plants could go naked.
I wonder if this means tougher emission controls on the next Martian rover?"
Martian Rover? (Score:3, Funny)
They have dogs there? So, emission controls like 'Don't crap of the Martian face' are needed?
Re:Quick, call GreenPeace! (Score:4, Funny)
And it's happening as we speak.
On Mars.
Damn you Bush! Damn you!
Is this part of a cycle? (Score:5, Funny)
(BTW, will Greenpeace stablish a Martian Chapter called "Redpeace"?)
Well, that explains everything (Score:5, Funny)
Expect blue skies on Mars in less than an hour!
<joke>
Tax cuts for the wealthy... (Score:3, Funny)
Dan Rather: "Most scientists we talked to agreed the ice caps melted after the Mars rover landed. Have we created an SUV problem on Mars?"
Oprah: "On today's show we have Jane A. Token, NASA's Director of Space Ecology, to give us the women's perspective on the future of space exploration."
Tom Daschle: "We need the Republicans to stop blocking funding for our new program to hire Mars ice watchers as federal employees to raise the level of professionalism..."
Re:Quick, call GreenPeace! (Score:5, Funny)
Hate to disagree, but it is the year 2001, making this millenium currently in its first year. Therefore, the temperatures being recorded now for this year are by definition the hottest of the millenium (and coldest too).
I wonder... (Score:2, Funny)
If so, we could then begin to terraform the planet by sending probes with seeds or plants which can then begin growing once the temperature gets to a normal range.
Then we could start a colony and clone really cute women that love geeks and then...
whoops.
Sorry.
Got ahead of myself.
Goran
If this were really happening... (Score:1, Funny)
Naked Plants (Score:1, Funny)