Originally Posted by The Sultan Of Smut

Well you mentioned Timothy Ball but didn't mention he is an oil industry consultant. This source you quoted more than once is a little suspect and among all of his clams this one is priceless: "A warmer Canada would improve our lives in these and other ways too numerous to list. Global warming? Let's hope so". After working as a sales rep in the ag industry for several years its common knowledge that the crops we currently grow can only do so with the these yields at our current temperatures, and if the average temperature fluctuates more than 2-3C yields will plummet. "A warmer Canada would improve our lives..." pewk... this kind of stupidity is astonishing from someone claiming to be a climatologist.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Ball

The other thing I was wondering was about the article on Mars warming. If the sun was in fact responsible for the "global" warming on Mars would it not be "global" warming not just in the southern pole. Does anyone else have and links to other Mars warming articles?