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Here are a couple of articles from the last couple of weeks that deserve a place in your global warming folder.

In case you missed it, here’s the National Geographic article on the simultaneous warming of Mars and Earth, “Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says”:

Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.

In 2005 data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide “ice caps” near Mars’s south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.

“The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars,” he said.

Next, did you hear Al Gore’s statement that the mainstream media is exhibiting “bias” in the name of “balanced” coverage of global warming?

Huh? Did we read that correctly? The MSM is trying to be balanced? Sorry, Al, but that pretty much destroys your theory right there. Here’s Al Gore’s quote from “Gore says media miss climate message”:

“I believe that is one of the principal reasons why political leaders around the world have not yet taken action,” Gore said. “There are many reasons, but one of the principal reasons in my view is more than half of the mainstream media have rejected the scientific consensus implicitly — and I say ‘rejected,’ perhaps it’s the wrong word. They have failed to report that it is the consensus and instead have chosen … balance as bias.

“I don’t think that any of the editors or reporters responsible for one of these stories saying, ‘It may be real, it may not be real,’ is unethical. But I think they made the wrong choice, and I think the consequences are severe.

“I think if it is important to look at the pressures that made it more likely than not that mainstream journalists in the United States would convey a wholly inaccurate conclusion about the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced.”

There you go.

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