Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Researchers Reveal How Climate Change Killed Mars

#1
C C Offline
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...illed-mars

EXCERPT: Climate change isn't just something to worry about here on Earth. New research published today shows that Mars has undergone a dramatic climate shift [...] that has rendered [...] the planet inhospitable to life. About 3.8 billion years ago, Mars was a reasonably pleasant place. [...] it appears to have had a magnetic field, too. But that field ran out. Scientists think that's when the atmosphere and water began to bleed into space. [...] "It's leaving at a rate about 100 grams per second. [...] That doesn't seem like much, but you add it up over a couple of billion years and it's enough to remove the entire atmosphere." The cause is [...the sun's...] solar wind....
Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Article Wildland-urban fire disasters aren’t a wildfire problem + Sound can reveal tornadoes C C 0 50 Dec 18, 2023 04:48 PM
Last Post: C C
  Article Which islands will become uninhabitable 1st due to climate change? + Jaws of Snake C C 3 115 Nov 15, 2023 04:43 AM
Last Post: Zinjanthropos
  Article The terrible paradox of air pollution and climate change C C 0 94 Sep 18, 2023 03:20 PM
Last Post: C C
  Climate change won't stop the Gulf Stream. Here's why. (Sabine Hossenfelder) C C 2 115 Aug 1, 2023 02:19 PM
Last Post: C C
  An incendiary form of lightning may surge under climate change C C 0 75 Mar 1, 2023 06:30 PM
Last Post: C C
  A technologically advanced society is choosing to destroy itself (climate change) C C 0 118 Nov 7, 2022 08:52 PM
Last Post: C C
  UK’s extreme heatwave would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change C C 0 120 Jul 29, 2022 07:33 PM
Last Post: C C
  Supreme Court cripples the US government's power to fight climate change C C 2 162 Jul 1, 2022 11:23 PM
Last Post: Syne
  La Nina keeps defying climate models + ‘Flash droughts’ are next big climate threat C C 0 97 May 30, 2022 03:18 PM
Last Post: C C
  Jordan Peterson, climate change, and the many definitions of a scientific model C C 0 92 May 3, 2022 05:54 PM
Last Post: C C



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)