15th March 2008, 6:55 AM
Quote:The fact is, we know enough about how light spreads from the sun to state outright that if the sun was causing it, we'd notice it's effect to differing levels on other planets. What are you saying about how other planets work exactly?
Well, they're not all the same size for one thing. Some of them have atmospheres and some don't, with varying degrees of atmospheric pressure. Some of them are gas giants. It seems to me that make comparisons isn't exactly as easy as "Well, Mercury's getting hotter, so the temperature on Earth will probably rise a bit too".
But anyway, I'm not a scientist here, so I can't go find the raw data myself and make sense of it. There's the guy at badastronomy saying one thing and scientists in a movie saying something else. If even scientists who have studied something for years can't agree, how am I supposed to know which is "the truth"?
Sometimes you get the scorpion.