Re: A wet Mars but was it cold or warm?

Marvin the Martian <marvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:The debate now is not that Mars has water; it has oceans of it frozen
:under a thin layer of Martian dust, as the Phoenix Lander has shown.
:

Beyond poppy*** and into outright lie. It's shown no such thing.

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:Nor is it an issue that Mars has liquid water and once had LOTS of liquid
:water.
:
:The debate is, was Mars warm, or was it very cold.(1) Sadly, here is
:where it gets political, for we are talking about CO2 and climate change.
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:I hate it when political hacks put on lab coats and pose as scientist.
:

I hate it when idiots read things, fail to understand them, and then
tie it to all sorts of silly ***.

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:The claim is, a slurry of chemicals lowered the freezing point of water,
:much like salt lowers the freezing point of water. The obvious answer,
:however, is that Mars was warmer, liquid water existed, and the water
:vapor pressure put a lot more water vapor into the atmosphere and that
:caused the warming. This would highlight that the large CO2 atmosphere of
:Mars didn't cause the warming and that water vapor is the larger
:greenhouse gas.
:

Ridiculous thinking.

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:Mars today is thus like the "frozen earth" theory(2). Basically, this
:theory is that the earth once had such a large ice age that the oceans
:froze and water vapor was lost from the atmosphere. Without the water
:vapor, earth got colder.
:

But nobody really believes this actually happened.

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"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is
only stupid."
-- Heinrich Heine
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