[Speed Gibson,
Wednesday June 27, 2007 at 1:05pm]
Global Warming on Venus
There would appear to be global warming on Mars, given its shrinking polar ice caps. The "settled" science of anthroprogenic global warming has no explanation. Oh, but now we're hearing about Venus which has "runaway" global warming, a precursor of what could happen to us if we don't sign the Kyoto Accord in the next few days.
This borders on desperation for the global warming alarmists. I could present some rather obvious scientific reasons why such a parallel isn't valid, but let's keep it simple.
Here we are on Earth, free to roam its surface, its ocean depths, every altitude,, even scan from orbiting satellites in space. And yet we can't begin to model or predict Earth's overall temperature changes. But somehow we can do it for Venus at a minimum distance of over 23 million miles. All we have are some data from a couple of probes plus whatever we can glean from telescopes and spectrometers.
We know virtually nothing of Venus in comparison to the Earth. And yet Venus's "runaway global warming" is a precursor of Terran doom. Case dismissed.
This borders on desperation for the global warming alarmists. I could present some rather obvious scientific reasons why such a parallel isn't valid, but let's keep it simple.
Here we are on Earth, free to roam its surface, its ocean depths, every altitude,, even scan from orbiting satellites in space. And yet we can't begin to model or predict Earth's overall temperature changes. But somehow we can do it for Venus at a minimum distance of over 23 million miles. All we have are some data from a couple of probes plus whatever we can glean from telescopes and spectrometers.
We know virtually nothing of Venus in comparison to the Earth. And yet Venus's "runaway global warming" is a precursor of Terran doom. Case dismissed.