Is ours the only planet in the solar system that is getting warmer?

Question

I read in a magazine that other planets in the solar system are also warming up, has anyone else heard of this. If so what would cause this to happen as there are no humans anywhere else to cause pollution.

one point the article did mention was the shrinking of the polar ice caps on mars, just like earth

Answer 1

Mars has been heating up as well.The sun is going into a cycle.The Gia worshipers don't want you to know that.After all if Mars heating up that would take the blame off us.
To the first answer for a top contributer you sure don't read the news.Mars heating up has been known about for over year now.You can look it up pretty easy.

Answer 2

Yes, other planets are warming up. The answer is simple: pollution isn't the cause. Human CO2 makes up maybe 0.7% of the Earth's greenhouse gasses. The real reason we're 'heating up' is much more obvious. The sun.

Increased CO2 doesn't cause increased temperature, it's actually the other way around. So where does the increased temperature come from? Increased solar activity. Like solar flares and whatnot. These add a lot more heat to the planets, like Earth.

Answer 3

Global temperatures on the earth have only been measured accurately for approximately the last 100 years or so (in developed countries).

We can look at ice cores, etc. to get an approximation of what global temperatures were like hundreds or thousands of years ago, but I wouldn't consider the information to be very precise.

While there is speculation that Mars is heating up, we probably have less than 25 years worth of data to base that speculation on. Which probably isn't a very good indicator of the long-term trends of heating and cooling cycles on that planet.

For the other planets in our solar system, we probably have even less information than we do for Mars.

Answer 4

The temperature has gone up and down for millions of years and the Mars polar caps are melting.
I did work for NASA and now retired . I have looked at many pictures of Mars and there are many dry river beds and some giant canyons that appear to of been washed out by water . If Mars was warm enough for water to flow like that what was the temperature like here on earth.

Answer 5

We really can't measure temperatures on other planets that closely to determine if there is a trend. The sun does have long-term (hundreds of years) cycles of luminosity and power-generation, and if, indeed, all planets are heating, this would be the most probable cause, not little green aliens driving around in pollution generating flying saucers.

Answer 6

The only thing that would cause that would be if the sun was producing more heat now than previously. I don't believe that there is any evidence to support that idea, so I don't believe that the other planets are heating up.

Answer 7

mike has given you the best answer to this question