So word on the street is that some astronomers are finding evidence of very recent global warming on Mars. We know that no one is driving any internal combustion engines up there, so why are the polar icecaps melting on Mars? Assuming the astronomers saying this are right, then the only explanation is that Mars is getting more heat from the sun. That can happen in two ways. Either the distance between Mars and the sun has shortened, or the sun has gotten hotter. Since several other scientists who have been practically excommunicated from science for saying global warming was natural have also been saying that the sun has gotten a little hotter, and I think Mars changing its orbit would make the news, I'm going to go with the hotter sun theory.

Again, this in no way means I am against reducing obviously toxic emissions into the atmosphere. We need to find a way to reduce the ozone destroying compounds, greenhouse gases, etc. being released into the air. My point, however, is that we should do this with a plan based on forethought with as small of a negative economic impact as possible. Ideas like the Kyoto Accords are based more on hysteria and what is now the "acceptable" stance on global warming. And almost all plans put forth that I have seen unduly punish the U.S. while basically ignoring India and China, which may not be as bad as the U.S. now but are on a path to much worse. IMHO, reductions in harmful atmospheric emissions of all kinds should be handled by advances in technology, not by Luddite-lite religious nuts. And I mean religious in the sense that the most vehement in this debate do seem to treat "global warming" as some all-powerful God that is more important than anything else and is absolutely unquestioned in their faith. To them, global warming is what they say it is, and there is no possibility of any deviation. Thus disagreeing scientists are dismissed as having been bought and paid for. People who disagree are referred to as cavemen and morons in letters to the editor in newspapers by people whose best knowledge of the subject comes from a 3 minutes puff piece on the local news.