re: #207 Slumbering Behemoth

You’re in for an unpleasant treat when you fact check the claims about other planets heating up. You’ll find that here again, unfortunately, the facts have been misrepresented by ‘sceptics’.

Take the example of Triton, which was cited as having warmed by 3 degrees farenheit over a period of several years. Triton is one of the very furthest objects in our solar system, further away than Pluto for much of the time. What kind of heating of the sun would be required to heat such a distant object up by that much? And how much would that amount of heat warm the earth up by, remembering that the earth is very much closer to the sun than triton? Basically, we’d have fried. I don’t think one has to be an expert to grasp that solar output cannot have been responsible for the increase in temp on triton.

This article about the warming on Triton is often posted by sceptics who fail to point out that it does not attribute the increase to changes in solar output, but gives entirely different reasons that are to do with the Triton’s environment. Perhaps they assume that fellow sceptics will only read as far as the first couple of lines?

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