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Originally Posted by Kevin
That doesn't make sense. Is the sun pointed more directly at Mars? I'm no astrophysicist, but your explanation sounds like a load of crap. If there's planetary warming on one planet due to the sun, it's going to at least happen on planets which are closer to the sun.
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Not really, depends on atmospheric protection and retention of solar radiation - proximity to the Sun is only one factor. So to point at Mars being warmer and saying "it's the Sun stupid!" is faulty science and logic (particularly since the study dates and times tend to compare 'summer' and 'winter' orbits of Mars).
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It seems like you're trying to jam the square peg of human activity causing global warming into a round hole.
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Actually I'd argue that it's the dogmatic naysayers that are trying to make hole round so the peg don't fit
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Another explanation for GW is that in '79, we switched the paint used on monitoring stations. See the following transcript:
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/art...icle/196/6727/
Also, the linked blog, presents a general study of temperature monitoring stations. It shows (quite convincingly) that when many were originally placed, they were nowhere near human activity. Now, those same stations are located in parking lots, near air conditioning units and other sources of heat which interfere with their accurate readings. Here are quite a few documented cases.
http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/weather_stations/
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Talk about useless arguments based on wildly faulty logic
Kevin I'm sure you'd even have to logically admit that A) one, two, or a hundred stations affected this way means squat given the thousands out there; B) there are far, far more stations that just those set-up or monitored by or in America.
It seems to me like Glenn Beck and the blog twit are trying to cite individual regional stations within the thousands of global stations to try and paint a picture discrediting the thousands that only the ardent anti-Climate Change or Global Warming skeptic believes.