Re: OT Barry says cars in Boston are melting the Polar Icecap....

Scientists have been saying for the last ten years that the outer planets in our solar system are warming up as well (Mars ,Jupiter Neptune etc.,) of course not to the degree that we are here, but, it has been postulated that the warming trend is due to unusually active sun activity and/or the earth may have tilted a fraction on its axis to create MORE warming here .Humans have had NO influence on warming the outer planets in our solar system.

The truth is : the earth is warming but it has nothing to do with humans, This warming and cooling is a natural cycle in earths history;we now are just coming out of an ice-age according to some scientists.

!000 years ago the earth was 3.6 *C warmer than it is now ;(On average) according to ice cores retrieved from galciers....thats why the Vikings were able to settle Greenland and called it "Greenland"and Newfoundland and called Newfoundland "Vinland" because grapes WERE there.Theres no grapes there now,too COLD.

At one time in earths histrory there was absolutely NO ice at the north and south poles and the climate was tropical all over.

Hopefully we can go back to this climate ,especially since heating oil etc. is priced so high.

CO2 is a net benefit to the world , plants use it to breath and grow and expel oxygen for all animal life to breath.This is good for our planet since we are depleting the oxygen producing forests at an alarming rate . This increase in co2 offsets the loss of the O producing forests........The net effect is that plants grow bigger , better and produce MORE food because of the slight increase in CO2, and expel MORE O for all animal life.

References : National Geographic, A Short History of Nearly Everything; author; Bill Bryson.