Mars Is Melting

Did you know that the polar ice caps on Mars are melting? Well it's true. Do a Google search on this topic and see what you find. Mars is indeed melting. The polar ice caps are receding, much like they are on Earth. If you read a few of the articles you find on this search, you'll find that scientists generally attribute this phenomenon to solar activity.

However, solar activity is not causing polar ice caps on Earth to melt. Just on Mars.

Apparently, the sun doesn't have the same effect on the Earth as it does on other planets in our solar system. Must be all the water we have here on Earth soaks up all the heat and light and radiation and stuff and keeps all that solar crap from melting the ice on the ol' Big Blue Marble.

Good thing too, because with all the melting that us humanoids are causing, we'd really be (literally) up the creek without a paddle if the sun melted ice on Earth the way it does on Mars. I mean, can you imagine if on top of the melting we cause from burning all kinds of shit that the sun was actually kicking it up a few notches? I mean, the sun is a pretty big dude. I mean, BIG big, you know, like you could fit 1,304,000 Earths inside the sun. That kind of big. And hot too. You combine something this big and hot with a personal grudge and we could be looking at a situation that even ethanol or hybrids couldn't cure.

So every day we can thank our lucky stars (or in this case, our lucky star) that the sun doesn't mess with the Earth the way it does with other planets.

I, for one, am grateful. I'd hate to think that the Earth was being warmed by something we have no control over.