Global Warming Is Melting Ice Cap - on Mars
THE PLANET is warming at an alarming rate--about half a degree Celsius since 1970. But, in this case, the planet under discussion is not Earth. It's Mars.
NASA scientists say the Red Planet is being hit by such rapid climate change that it could lose its southern ice cap. Could this mean that global warming is not entirely a manmade phenomenon? Certainly, it would be hard to blame Mars' warming on gas-guzzling SUVs and other fossil-fuel pollution, or methane released by cows that have proliferated to gratify meat-eaters.
Scientists theorize that Earth and Mars may be warming at roughly the same rate for radically different reasons. Researcher Lori Fenton, heading a team that compared maps of the Martian surface from the Viking mission of the 1970s with those made by the Mars Global Survey two decades later, speculates that temperature differences between light and dark portions of the planet may be stirring strong winds that are leading to further warming.
But others wonder whether solar activity may be driving much of the warming on both Earth and Mars.
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That Mars and Earth are warming at similar rates is pure coincidence. If it was solar variations that was driving global warming on both planets, the different orbits (Earth is closer to the sun) would correspond to different temperature trends.
Nevertheless, if you wanted to find out if solar activity was driving much of the warming on Earth, you're better off comparing solar activity to Earth's climate. In 2005, Sami Solanki at the Max Planck Insitute compared solar activity & Earth's temperatures over the past 1150 years and found temperatures closely correlate to solar activity. When sunspot activity was low during the Maunder Minimum in the 1600's or the Dalton Minimum in the 1800's, the earth went through 'small ice ages'. The sun has been unusually hot in the last century - solar output rose dramatically in the early 20th century accompanied by a sharp rise in global temperatures.
However, Solanki also found the correlation between solar activity and global temperatures ended around 1975. At that point, temperatures started rising while solar activity stayed level. This led him to conclude "during these last 30 years the solar total irradiance, solar UV irradiance and cosmic ray flux has not shown any significant secular trend, so that at least this most recent warming episode must have another source."
This conclusion is backed up by other studies quantifying the amount of solar influence in recent global warming. Lean 1999 concludes "it is unlikely that Sun–climate relationships can account for much of the warming since 1970". Waple 1999 finds "little evidence to suggest that changes in irradiance are having a large impact on the current warming trend." Frolich 1998 concludes "solar radiative output trends contributed little of the 0.2°C increase in the global mean surface temperature in the past decade"
The sun has been the primary driver of Earth's climate in the past but solar variations are conspicuous in their absence over the last 30 years of long term global warming.
Just because the climatologists do not physically understand, and are not able to mathematically analyse the principal contributor to global warming (the interplay of solar activity, interplanetary magnetic field, cosmic radiation and Earth cloud cover) they cannot simply dismiss this contributor.
The central piece of evidence for a purely natural cause of global warming is the chart showing the almost perfect correlation between changes of atmospheric temperature and changes of the Earth's rotational velocity. As long as the climatologists and geophysicists cannot explain this physical phenomenon both quantitatively and with regard to phase, they have no moral right to speak or publish on the cause of global warming.
Physical explanation for the strong correlation between fluctuations of the rotational velocity and changes of the mean surface temperature of the Earth
Despite its great successes, the gravitational theory of the great physicist Albert Einstein, General Relativity, (which is of a purely geometric nature and is totally incompatible with the highly successful quantum theory) must be discarded because this theory is completely irreconcilable with the extremely large energy density of the vacuum that has been accurately measured in the Casimir experiment.
Seaon Theory, a new theory of gravitation based on quantum mechanics that was developed eight decades after General Relativity, not only covers the well-known Einstein-effects but also shows up half a dozen post-Einstein effects that occur in nature. From a humanitarian standpoint, the most important super-Einsteinian physical phenomenon is the generation of small-amplitude longitudinal gravitational waves by the motion of the supermassive bodies located at the center of our galaxy, their transmission throughout the Galaxy, and the action of these waves on the Sun, the Earth and the other celestial bodies through which they pass. These vacuum density waves, which carry with them small changes in the electromagnetic properties of the vacuum, occur in an extremely large period range from minutes to millennia.
On the Sun, these vacuum waves modulate the intensity of the thermonuclear energy conversion process within the core, and this has its effect on all physical quantities of the Sun (this is called solar activity). This in turn has its influences on the Earth and the other planets..
On the Earth, the steady stream of vacuum density waves produces parts-per-billion changes in a large number of geophysical quantities. The most important quantities are the radius, circumference, rotational velocity, gravitational acceleration, VLBI baseline lengths, and axis orientation angles of the Earth, as well as the orbital elements of all low-earth-orbit satellites. All of these fluctuations have been measured.
The hypothesis that the global warming of the past decades is man-made is based on the results of calculations with climate models in which the main influence on climate is not included. The most important climate driver (besides solar luminosity) comes from the interplay of solar activity, interplanetary magnetic field, cosmic radiation and Earth atmosphere (cloud cover). This phenomenon is generated by the galactic vacuum density waves described above.
Irrefutable evidence for the existence of this new, super-Einsteinian wave type is provided by the extremely close correlation between mean Earth temperature and mean Earth rotational velocity. Einsteinian theory cannot explain this amazing correlation between two physical quantities that seem to be completely unrelated.
While the rotational velocity of the Earth and the thermonuclear energy conversion process on the Sun react simultaneously to the passage of a vacuum density wave, a time span of 6 years is needed for the energy to be transported from the core of the Sun to the Earth's atmosphere and for the latter's reaction time.