The anthropogenic global warming crowd want us to believe the Earth is heating up because of man-made CO2 emissions. Skeptics claim solar activity is the main reason for the recent warming trend and nothing unusual is really happening. If solar activity is really the major cause, shouldn't this have affected the rest of the solar system? The evidence suggests it has.
Mars: Here is a video animation of the Martian Polar ice cap taken by the Hubble telescope in October of 1996, January of 1997 and March of 1997. Remember the peak temperature Earth achieved in 1998. Hat tip to The Strata-Sphere.
Jupiter: The latest images could provide evidence that Jupiter is in the midst of a global change that can modify temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit on different parts of the globe. (2006) Excerpted from here.
Pluto: Pluto is undergoing global warming, as evidenced by a three-fold increase in the planet's atmospheric pressure during the past 14 years, a team of astronomers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Williams College, the University of Hawaii, Lowell Observatory and Cornell University announced in a press conference today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences in Birmingham, AL. (2002) Excerpted from here.
Triton: We're not the only ones experiencing global warming. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has reported that observations obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based instruments reveal that Neptune's largest moon, Triton, seems to have heated up significantly since the Voyager space probe visited it in 1989. The warming trend is causing part of Triton's surface of frozen nitrogen to turn into gas, thus making its thin atmosphere denser. (1998) Excerpted from here.
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