Impact Delivery of Reduced Greenhouse Gases on Early Mars

Abstract: Reducing greenhouse gases are once again the latest trend in finding solutions to the early Mars climate dilemma. In its current form – as proposed by Ramirez et al. [1], later refined by Wordsworth et al. [2], and confirmed by Ramirez [3] – collision induced absorptions between CO2-H2 or CO2-CH4 provide enough extra greenhouse power to raise global mean surface temperatures to the melting point of water provided the atmosphere is thick enough and the reduced gases are abundant enough. To rai…