National Geographic = Holocaust Deniers ?

Well, since the Boston Globe’s Ellen Goodman compared folks whom insist that more research be done into the global warming phenomenon to Holocaust deniers, we must assume that she now puts National Geographic into the same category. For you see, they had the nerve to report the following:

Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human- induced—cause…

Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.

In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.
"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.

Abdussamatov believes that changes in the sun's heat output can account for almost all the climate changes we see on both planets.
Mars and Earth, for instance, have experienced periodic ice ages throughout their histories….

But the Goracle should feel no fear, because he has some backup:

"His views are completely at odds with the mainstream scientific opinion," said Colin Wilson, a planetary physicist at England's Oxford University.

Well, why should anyone consider any ideas that are outside of “mainstream opinion”? C’mon - Copernicus, Galileo, Einstein, and Hawking ? Deniers, all of them! I mean, wasn’t the flat earth, with a universe that dutifully circled it, a better place – without all those silly equations and quantum theories to concern ourselves with? Apparently, Goodman and the Goracle must believe so, since we are not permitted to question their science as they lead us back down the road to the Dark Ages...

Bob Krumm has some alternative theories (over-useage of the infamous Illudium Q35 Explosive Space Modulator, perhaps?) for Martian global warming, with photos…!

UPDATE: Another ally of the Goodman/Goracle cabal has appeared in the form of David Ignatius, who again orders those whom dare question liberal scientific research to clam up, because:

The scientific debate about whether there is a global warming problem is pretty much over….Skeptical researchers will continue to question the data, but this isn't a "call both sides for comment" issue anymore. For mainstream science, it's settled.

So another open-minded liberal has now declared he won’t even listen to any dissenting scientific data on the global warming issue. Nice attitude to have on-staff of a major metropolitan newspaper…unless, of course, he’s just signing on to company policy...