Proof of global warming!
posted at 12:00 pm on May 23, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Oh, you skeptics are going to rue the day you doubted global warming! Hot off of NASA’s website, we have undeniable proof of “large-scale global warming,” photographic evidence taken from space that shows the increased temperature generating new, violent storms. Deniers will have to eat some crow over this.
Of course, they’ll first have to talk about the right planet:
For about 300 years Jupiter’s banded atmosphere has shown a remarkable feature to telescopic viewers, a large swirling storm system known as The Great Red Spot. In 2006, another red storm system appeared, actually seen to form as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the curious reddish hue. Now, Jupiter has a third red spot, again produced from a smaller whitish storm. All three are seen in this image made from data recorded on May 9 and 10 with the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The spots extend above the surrounding clouds and their red color may be due to deeper material dredged up by the storms and exposed to ultraviolet light, but the exact chemical process is still unknown. For scale, the Great Red Spot has almost twice the diameter of planet Earth, making both new spots less than one Earth-diameter across. The newest red spot is on the far left (west), along the same band of clouds as the Great Red Spot and is drifting toward it. If the motion continues, the new spot will encounter the much larger storm system in August. Jupiter’s recent outbreak of red spots is likely related to large scale climate change as the gas giant planet is getting warmer near the equator.
Well, gee …. what could be causing that global warming? Has Exxon-Mobil used its 8.3% profit margin to start refining oil on the solar system’s largest planet? Perhaps Jupiterians have bought too many SUVs over the last few years. Jupiter may also have an epidemic of bovine flatulence causing these storms.
Or, just maybe, the sun has affected Jupiter in a similar fashion as it has Mars and Pluto, and that the negligible warming Earth has experienced comes from the same source.
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All hail the Goracle!
Mortis on May 23, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Damn Venusians and their SUV trips to Jupiter.
lorien1973 on May 23, 2008 at 12:04 PM
The other planets are watching Obama, and having Obamasms. That’s all.
RBMN on May 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Uranus is nearby, maybe that’s the culprit.
Ropera on May 23, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Let’s fire up the Denial Express for our lib friends. They simply refuse to consider alternative viewpoints, they will take their inaccurate beliefs to their graves.
cannonball on May 23, 2008 at 12:06 PM
WOW! The Hubble is one amazing instrument! What a photo!
dish on May 23, 2008 at 12:08 PM
But there’s no increase in luminosity from the sun. What could be causing the warming?
It’s a fascinating question so long as you don’t set your hair on fire and claim mankind is destroying the plaent.
Nethicus on May 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM
This picture is from a Van Gogh painting called “eggs at sunset”.
Nice try Capt!
patrick neid on May 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM
WIN!
You got post of the day when it is associated with the comment about bovine flatulence in the commentary.
thomashton on May 23, 2008 at 12:11 PM
I guess the Holocaust never existed either, huh Ed?
/s^3
omnipotent on May 23, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Blame it on NASA and their gas-guzzling space probes.
HotJavaJack on May 23, 2008 at 12:11 PM
“The policies of George Bush have made Earth extremely unpopular with the rest of the solar system.” — Joe Biden
Rhinoboy on May 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Socialize Jupiter!
29Victor on May 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Ditto. Saving the Hubble, at least for a few more years, was a great decision by NASA. I don’t know who was the idiot who wanted to destroy it– it’s really got many years of useful life left in her.
I’m looking forward to the deployment of the Webb and the Herschel.
Nethicus on May 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM
CO2 emmissions from URANUS .. causing galaxy wide goracle warming
redrock on May 23, 2008 at 12:13 PM
But if warming isn’t caused by mankind, how will all those new crisis industries survive, let alone the scientists who need crisis research bucks?
jgapinoy on May 23, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Illustrating absurdity: 600 things caused by global warming
RushBaby on May 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM
May want to read up on sunspot cycles…. and how it affects radiation generated by the sun…
Romeo13 on May 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM
How is it that so many of our American brothers and sisters can actually believe this Goresh*t…..and carbon credits fer cryin’ out loud….A scam as large as the Great Red Spot!! I am simply stymied how otherwise, seemingly intelligent acquaintances are sucked into this global warming thesis when so much science, research, and documented facts are contrary to the man made storyline…..and common sense refutes this crap just as aggressively….
b4lucy on May 23, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Minor fix. : )
the goddess anna on May 23, 2008 at 12:18 PM
HA! :)
Actually, we all know that it’s Bushco’s fault. If he had only promoted Kyoto, then poor Jupiter wouldn’t be in this situation now.
Tim on May 23, 2008 at 12:20 PM
All I can say is that if our carbon consumption even affects Jupiter, Mars and Pluto then we better start reducing our footprints and jacking up the price of those carbon credits now. Heck, that’s 3 extra planets that need saving, not just one, making a total of four!
No more arguing with the Environmentalists now.
/moonbat off
Aylios on May 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM
“We can’t keep driving our SUV’s, and keeping the thermostat on 72, and eating as much as we want, and expect the other planets to say, “Ok.’”
Akzed on May 23, 2008 at 12:24 PM
This is just a “distraction” from the truth of MAN MADE Global Warming.
abinitioadinfinitum on May 23, 2008 at 12:27 PM
I made the Jupiter photo my desktop background on my computer.
It’s quite lovely.
thuja on May 23, 2008 at 12:28 PM
The sun? Whaaaaat? Noooo, surely not. /sarc
CP on May 23, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Dear Ed Morrissey,
You fascist, holocaust denying bastard. How much is Exxon-Mobile paying you to rape the Earth?
Sincerely,
Sarcasm (Simply because someone will actually believe I am serious and so I have to ruin a good sarcastic moment by pointing out it is sarcasm because sarcasm translates so badly on the intrawebs. Sarcasm.)
NotCoach on May 23, 2008 at 12:31 PM
but but but, CO2 Bad! O2 Good! how can this be!?
http://www.co2science.org/
http://www.oism.org/pproject/
And the headline in today’s Colorado Springs Gazette is about how the citizens have conserved so much water that the water Co. has to jack up rates significantly! Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Kind of like voting for McCain.
kirkill on May 23, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Isn’t there some place I can buy some carbon credits to offset the new red spots??
Lunkinator on May 23, 2008 at 12:33 PM
NotCoach, you ignorant Troll! ;-)
kirkill on May 23, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Ropera,
“Uranus is nearby, maybe that’s the culprit.”
I’ll bet that is a source of excessive amounts of methane.
exhelodrvr on May 23, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Sorry, but did you actually read this New Scientist article?
HeIsSailing on May 23, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Sorry; should have read all the other comments first!
exhelodrvr on May 23, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Caught in a sarcasm Moebius loop.
I’ve been there.
Rhinoboy on May 23, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Jupiter will just have to pay more carbon offsets than their smaller neighbors, that’s all.
wildweasel on May 23, 2008 at 12:40 PM
The United Federation of Planets had better pass a resolution right away!
forest on May 23, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Klearly, the Klingons from Uranus are just bombing the Venusians.
kirkill on May 23, 2008 at 12:42 PM
How many planets do we have to destroy before we realize Gore is way more right than we could even imagine. We gave Earth a fever but we gave Jupiter Cancer!!!
saltydogg14 on May 23, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Considering that they’re not allowed to start any new drilling here on earth, can you blame them for going elsewhere?
Bigfoot on May 23, 2008 at 12:45 PM
And it is, now Jupiter. And with Earth, that makes 4. Maybe the “new scientists” haven’t actually fully understood how the Sun Spot activity effects our climate. Maybe because it’s a combination of that with ocean currents and the spongebob magnets on your refrigerator.
kirkill on May 23, 2008 at 12:46 PM
So has anybody asked the Jupertarians how things are going?
It might actually be better…especially in the outer parts of the solar system…if things were warmer.
Until we get universal agreement on the “correct” setting of the interplanetary thermostats, isn’t it silly to begin taxing the hell out of everything and trying to change them? Isn’t what the Eco-Facists want an implementation of the rarely-successful “Fire-Aim-Ready” strategy?
landlines on May 23, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Why isn’t anyone planting any trees up there!?!?!? What is WRONG with you people!?
Knuckledragger on May 23, 2008 at 12:50 PM
I just throw my comment up,sarcasm and all, if someone doesn’t get it, that’s their fault. :)
abinitioadinfinitum on May 23, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Let’s send Gore there; the temps should drop precipitously in no time…… Heck, lets send him there even if it doesn’t help, it will do some benefit here for sure.
Think_b4_speaking on May 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM
McCain signed on to the Global Warming Express Train just as the Global Warming Express Train is running off it’s tracks and about to go over the cliff.
Brilliant timing Juan.
MB4 on May 23, 2008 at 1:00 PM
RX (Jupiter): apply 1 Earth mass of astringent twice daily until redness subsides.
James on May 23, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Rhinoboy on May 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Hilarious!
Saltysam on May 23, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Meanwhile back on Earth, it’s snowing in San Diego County. In May.
Is the Goreacle speaking there or something?
Pablo on May 23, 2008 at 1:08 PM
Goracle the Oracle will probably now excommunicate all of San Diego county for blasphemy.
MB4 on May 23, 2008 at 1:14 PM
If the sun does not stop creating planetary warming and I mean right now, this liberal will be for the Government to take it over and run it in order to provide fairness and justice for the people. — Maxine Waters
KW64 on May 23, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Republicans drive SUV’s on Jupiter, too?
Professor Blather on May 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Able to guzzle more energy than dozens of normal men! Producing more hot air than a locomotive! Able to pile up carbon credits higher than a tall building in a single bound!!!
Look UP in the sky! It’s ChickenLittle! It’s FlyingSnakeOilSalesman! It’s the Sultan of Hanging Chads! It’s the Ayatollah of Heat! No, it’s CarbonMan flying over San Diego county in a private jet painted green to excommunicate the whole country for committing heresy against the most Most Holy doctrine of Global warming.
CarbonMan, strange visitor from an alternate reality who came to Earth with claims and scary predictions far beyond those of mortal men, disguised as Fat Albert, and now joined by other members of the Royal Green League such as BioFuelHummerMan, EcoCleaningWoman, and his latest recruits, the molding geriatrics JuanGreenOldCoot and HolyGreenOldJoe, they all fight a never ending battle for science-fiction, hypocrisy, big-money-making-scams and the Hollywood way!
MB4 on May 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM
ahahaha…good one.
scalleywag on May 23, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Thats it! I’ll bet you a dollar to a donut ring, its the flatulence from Uranus that has caused this! Maybe a giant cork….hummmm…
kcd on May 23, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Apparently, the ManBearPig is now involved in interstellar travel.
Scarey.
raiderdav on May 23, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Now that’s funny. HaHaHa
fogw on May 23, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Get yourselves an 8″ Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and an 8mm Plossl eyepiece and see these things on Jupiter yourselves.
jediwebdude on May 23, 2008 at 1:45 PM
This thread has been declared officially heretical by the One True Church of the Goracle.
corona on May 23, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Point out one instance of sarcasm, you keep a man stupid just one more day.
Never label sarcasm and you give a man a chance to learn to think for himself and become self-sufficient
snaggletoothie on May 23, 2008 at 1:49 PM
WOW! More evidence that global warming exists and is man-made. We are heating up space and the other planets. Oh well, I’m just glad it’s 72 degrees inside my house…
Rick on May 23, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Per the following:
Sun’s Output Increasing
compared to some earlier arguments here, perhaps this:
Scientists Clueless over Sun’s Effect on Earth
has the best headline for the situation.
Consensus my ass.
Merovign on May 23, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Consensus: “To believe as the tree hugging , global warming nuts would have you believe or risk loosing all of your research funds”.
kcd on May 23, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Greatest…headline…ever.
NotCoach on May 23, 2008 at 2:04 PM
I’m curious as to how many people under 40 did not recognize the front photo as a picture of Jupiter.
baldilocks on May 23, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Get used to it, those dumb liberals have been doing the same to creationism science, stem cell research, and even the health effects of smoking. Why don’t scientists embrace alternative viewpoints more frequently instead of following the ’scientific method’ which clearly doesn’t work very well. Science is becoming more and more obsolete, and I’m glad that I didn’t go that route in college.
Captain, thanks for providing this scientific insight mixed with a good dose of conservative humor. I trust you much more than those liberals who specialize in studying the atmosphere.
bayam on May 23, 2008 at 2:12 PM
But Gore is cool. He’s the Man in the Moon!
Travis1 on May 23, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Very few. Global warming supporters are primarily young college kids who just walked out of a class on fear-mongering… er I mean atmospheric science… at Duke, Notre Dame, Michigan (insert the name of your typical ’scientific method’ university).
bayam on May 23, 2008 at 2:16 PM
I am under 40 and I take exception to that. I knew damn well that is a picture of Mercury.
NotCoach on May 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM
You will all rue the day that you made fun of this.
Planetary warming is serious, we started it here on earth, and now it has spread to the other planets.
If we don’t stop it now, it will have spread beyond the solar system.
GodGore have mercy on us.right2bright on May 23, 2008 at 2:22 PM
AhhHaHaHaa!
kcd on May 23, 2008 at 2:24 PM
I was thinking about the hurricane predictions for the coming season released yesterday, I believe.
I could be wrong, but with things actually cooling off due to the lack of sunspots this season, I’m going to predict that we may not actually have any serious hurricanes again this season. That will fly in the face of the gorbal warmers predictions of steadily increasing numbers and intensities of hurricanes that has failed every year so far since Katrina.
As with all things, time will tell.
techno_barbarian on May 23, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Who is right?
It is scary, is this what Van Gogh’s hallucinations all about?
Global Warming?
right2bright on May 23, 2008 at 2:28 PM
“Rue the day? Who talks like that?”
-Chris Knight
James on May 23, 2008 at 2:33 PM
You need to keep up. The Goracle and his disciples have changed the sermons message from global warming to global climate change. His disciples have already conceded that there will likely be no warming for at least the next 10 years because of ocean currents…yeah, that’s the ticket. Or maybe global warming has gone on vacation to Jupiter. But when it returns from getting a tan at the Great Red Spot, “Woe be unto us for the great man made beast of global warming shall return to us thrice fold in it’s fury and all shall be forsaken and in ruin in it’s! So saith the Goracle, so sayeth our true Lord and Savior.”
NotCoach on May 23, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Jovian’s are not so jovial.
Meanwhile on the third rock from the sun, longer growing seasons are feeding more SUV’s while native carbon human species are going hungry.
The democratic party has approved the use of recycling humans for food to be packaged as soylent green technology.
Once again, the environmentalist and democrats have saved the planet from certain doom.
Kini on May 23, 2008 at 2:39 PM
What do Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune have in common? They’ve all experienced warming over the past few decades, and they are all heated by the sun. So what is the cause of planetary warming?
By Jove (Jupiter) I think we’ve got it!
Average temperatures on Earth are much more strongly correlated with sunspot activity than with CO2 concentration. So the great Goracle who invented the Internet now has to invent a sunspot destroyer. How do you cool down a nuclear reactor 300,000 times heavier than the earth? Now THAT would deserve a Nobel Prize!
Or we can pray to the Creator of the sun to turn off the sunspots…
Steve Z on May 23, 2008 at 2:41 PM
I’m going to do some climate change to a couple of hot dogs in my kitchen for a late lunch. I think I’ll climate change some tea, lemon and sugar with a little ice, too. Then, I’ll sit at my picnic table and gaze into the sky while I contemplate all the climate change going on in the universe. See ya later.
Dusty on May 23, 2008 at 2:41 PM
You mean that’s not a stolen picture of my face from my high school years?
To be honest, that’s one of the coolest pics of Jupiter I’ve ever seen (and in my geekiness, I’ve seen a lot of them).
the goddess anna on May 23, 2008 at 2:44 PM
So when do we start rounding up Al Gore and all his scammer buddies and put them in jail? I’m serious. This BS global warming fraud has been going on for almost thirty years now, and the US government has been bilked out nearly a trillion dollars. It’s time for the socialist con artist to pay!
Maxx on May 23, 2008 at 2:45 PM
I wonder how the Jupiter Polar Bears are facing this Global Warming on their planet. If it is a world wide epidemic of their gaseous ice flows are supposedly merging… er.. I mean melting of their habitat.
upinak on May 23, 2008 at 2:46 PM
According to latest reports the situation is very bad for the Jupiter Polar Bear. As a result of recent warming trends the bear populations has increased ten fold and they have become fat and lazy. The Jovian Council on Population Elimination is distraught over this fact since the fat and lazy Jupiter Polar Bears are not doing their part to keep Jovian populations in line by eating Jovians.
The Jovian Council has decided to take drastic action in an attempt to reverse this unfortunate trend by enacting a Big Red Spot offset tax. If you want a Red Spot you have to pay another Jovian to not have a Red Spot. They hope this will reduce Red Spot growth to pre-1970 levels and thus make Jupiter Polar Bears skinny and angry and more prone to attack and eat Jovians.
NotCoach on May 23, 2008 at 2:54 PM
The global warming scam will continue even though it has been discredited over and over just because the major corporations and Soros are set up to make big money from it.
It’s all about the money and not at all about the truth anymore folks.
Buzzy on May 23, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Shhhhh, the Goracle will figure something out. God help us if he gets another NP, the Methane will make his head explode.
upinak on May 23, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Isn’t the Red Spot in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere? Wouldn’t the Jovian Penguins suffer the most?
James on May 23, 2008 at 2:59 PM
How do you know these things?
right2bright on May 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Jovian Polar Bears Attack!
upinak on May 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Now they are blaming fat people for global warming. That’s a new one just added to the list very recently. So too many fat people on Jupiter you suppose?
Maxx on May 23, 2008 at 3:13 PM
The scientists that predicted all those monster hurricanes never actually said “Earth.” Maybe they do know what they were talking about.
.
To paraphrase Spock: “It is human arrogance that makes them assume the warning was for Earth.”
artlover on May 23, 2008 at 3:16 PM
I don’t appreciate the Bush administration’s slow response to the victims on Jupiter.
Grafted on May 23, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Big planet like that must breed some big cattle. Between the mountains of cow flop, and fifty foot roaches passing gas, it’s no wonder they are having the same problem we are.
We owe it to our galaxy neighbors to send Al Gore to Jupiter to save that planet as well.
Excelsior!!!!!
Hening on May 23, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Doesn’t make sense. Jupiter is an almost-star. It radiates more heat than it absorbs from the Sun. It can only be a redistribution of Jupiter’s heat, not an actual warming of the whole planet.
misterpeasea on May 23, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Oh my !! … Oh my Goodness .. PANIC !!!!! Look at this !!!!!!!
Oh, nevermind, that article was from November 2, 1922.
Maxx on May 23, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I strongly urge everyone to visit the Hubble Space Telescope galleries. They’re incredible.
misterpeasea on May 23, 2008 at 3:36 PM
“Jovian Pengins and Rednecks, hardest hit.”
kcd on May 23, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’
apacalyps on May 23, 2008 at 3:41 PM
What? You are trying to say that if the sun puts more energy into Jupiter’s atmosphere it won’t get hotter? You might want to think about that a bit more.
Maxx on May 23, 2008 at 3:43 PM
GM’s CEO, Bob Lutz: Global warming is a “total crock of sh*t”
Maxx on May 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM
I would rank it second to the dumb theory of evolution which teaches nothing exploded and produced everything. Even though everyone knows that that matter could not come from nothing exploding. Yet, this is found in your science book. This is what they believe. It is ridiculous. They do not have another choice except, “God created the heaven and the earth.”
apacalyps on May 23, 2008 at 3:53 PM
It’s 66 degrees right now in Tucson. On Friday a week ago, it was 106 degrees. Proof of global
warming. . . I mean cooling . . . or is it just global climate change now? (And isn’t the climate supposed to change?)AZCoyote on May 23, 2008 at 3:57 PM
I love the sarcasm in this thread, but I need to be serious here, because, in the big picture, this really isn’t something we should be laughing about…
I agree 100%. This is the largest fraud ever perpetrated in the United States. It is a scheme to weaken the United States, and the Communist Democratic Socialists are behind it. Look at the title of the bill being called the “Farm bill”…”Biofuels” is part of the title…people are literally starving because of what these deceivers are doing.
Red Pill on May 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM
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