Quote:I'm sorry, I forgot to refrence the increase in solar output.
You say that with such authority, you must have corroborating evidence, perhaps a peer-reviewed paper, to back up that claim, yes? Something that wasn't part of the IPCC review?
The cycles that affect Mars, the precession of its axis and the advance of its perihelion, such a short time has passed relative to their total length that, save for there being some sort of landslide point that I have not read about, will have progressed less than .1% of their total cycles.
Solar output affects the atmosphere. Without the 1366Watts/m2 we receive daily we would be an iceball. The two Watt increase since the Seventies has put more energy into the atmosphere. Not a lot I'll grant you, but a number comparable to what human induced greenhouse emissions are supposed to be retaining.
This energy is not sitting around in energon cubes. It is exciting molecules, being absorbed by the oceans, heating the continents, and doing a myriad of other things that generate heat.