You should also be aware that the planet Mars is heating up also. This is
probably due to the probes we sent there, including Sojourner Truth a few
years back...  This could certainly not be due to something like say... the
Sun.

According to AP, December 6, 2001:
Study Suggests Mars Ice Caps Eroding
By Paul Recer


Vast fields of carbon dioxide ice are eroding from the poles of Mars,
suggesting that the climate of the Red Planet is warming and the atmosphere
is becoming slightly more dense. Experts say that over time such changes
could allow water to return to the Martian surface and turn the frigid
planet into a "shirt-sleeve environment."..

..the new study suggests that a dense cap of frozen carbon dioxide thought
to be permanent at each of the Mars poles may not be all that permanent...

...As the C02 ice erodes, it adds carbon dioxide to the Martian atmosphere,
causing the "air" to get thicker over time. This would enable the planet to
hold more of the sun's heat and, perhaps, eventually warm the whole planet
enough for water to return to the Martian surface...

...Caplinger said it is not known if there is enough carbon dioxide in the
polar caps to bring about such an atmospheric change...

...Other studies have shown that Mars was once awash with great basins of
water, but the water is thought to have disappeared or become subsurface ice
as the planet cooled and developed a thin C02 atmosphere.


Denys

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Subject: Re: OT: Global Warming Called 'Fairy Tale'

Well said.

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making plans", John Lennon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 1:35 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: OT: Global Warming Called 'Fairy Tale'
>
> Kim writes:
>
> > reminds me of reading the San Jose newspaper in the airport waiting for
> my
> >  flight on the way back from the 3K solutions conference in April.  In a
> >  Gallop poll, 57 % of those polled believed in the Bible view of
> Creation.
>
> Of course, the truth isn't determined democratically. Even if everyone
> absolutely believed something to be true in their heart of hearts, it
> doesn't
> necessarily make it so. It only offers it up to the possibilty of being a
> well-accepted myth, one that relieves everyone of any further heavy
> thinking.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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