Quote

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.

It's great that people are interested in Mars.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.