Sunday 23 December 2018

It's going to be a warm Christmas with or without you



In space we are not alone.

On the Red Planet the polar ice caps are melting.

There is enough locked-up ice to cover the Martian surface with water up to a depth of 11 meters.

Since measurements began in the late 1970s the Martian temperature has increased by 0.86 Celsius.

Dust  storms  covering up to 40% of the Martian surface reflect heat back into space.

Other planets affected by climate change include Jupiter (+10 Celsius) and Pluto (+1 Celsius). Neptune's largest moon Triton has seen an increase of 2 Celsius.

The Sun is also experiencing global warming.  The temperature of the Sun's radiation has increased by 0.5 Celsius every decade since the late 1970s, a figure which fits exactly into the context of a warming up of the whole Universe.

What is the Universe? A sidebar link to the Electric Universe website is my Christmas present to visitors here.

Sources: NASA, The Carl Sagan Centre, Kronen Zeitung, Electric Universe Thunderbolts Project.





Posted by at

12 comments:

  1. The Weaver of Grass23 December 2018 at 02:07

    Essential reading.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Gwil W23 December 2018 at 05:01

      Thank you Pat and a Merry Christmas to you and yours.

      Delete
  2. Gwil W23 December 2018 at 05:17

    The Electric Universe link is in sidebar as Thunderbolts Project,

    ReplyDelete
  3. northsider 23 December 2018 at 11:10

    Martians must like it hot. Have you read about the Moon landings being an Hollywood piece of fiction? I am not sure about that but they have never been back.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Gwil W23 December 2018 at 14:12

      I think the reason they haven't been back is because of the moonquakes. They are quite frequent and measure over 5 on the Richter scale and as one of the NASA team remarked " they ring like a bell " which is not surprising since the moon has no tectonic plates as we have here on Earth.

      Martians like it hot. That's why they gave the biggest volcano in the solar system.

      Delete
  4. Rachel Phillips23 December 2018 at 12:47

    Sounds more like Thunderbirds to me.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Gwil W24 December 2018 at 02:13

    Another one for Northsider Dave.

    Why is the planet Mars red.

    Because it's embarrassed by the fake news promulgated about him here on Earth over many millennia.

    ReplyDelete
  6. northsider 24 December 2018 at 04:22

    Good one.

    What nationality is Santa Claus?

    North Polish.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Magyar24 December 2018 at 05:50

    __ We are our planet's warming, but we must not hold, nor strike that final match.

    live today
    tomorrow may be ash
    space match

    ReplyDelete

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)