Climate Change on Jupiter

There's a short story I've thought about writing, where some aliens capture a handful of humans to take them back to their planet for study, the way humans would capture animals abd put them in a zoo. The aliens know nothing about this strange new species, and cannot communicate with them.

One day, one of the specimens begins to bleed, really hemorrhage, some sort of horrible internal injury by the looks of it. The aliens quickly decide to euthanize it to spare it further suffering.

Of course they had no way of knowing about menstruation.

So we study the heavens and the earth, and we make sweeping judgements based on one or two centuries of observation. Yet the world moves on geological time, in a complex clockwork system that includes the sun and the other planets. The ice caps are melting on Mars, too, and there's no way that's due to carbon emissions since the Industrial Revolution. The ice in the Arctic may be shrinking, but it's increasing in the Antarctic. That fact gets brushed under the carpet.

We've only really been able to "see" our planet since Sputnik went up and paved the way for satellites. The world is not now and never has been a static place--harbors silt up, islands explode, rivers flood and recede, plains turn to deserts, and there are seashells found on top of mountains.

I'm not saying we shouldn't do what we can to keep the environment as healthy as possible--that's only prudent.

But I'm getting very tired of the constant barrage of guilt-inducing rhetoric about how whatever happens on Earth is the fault of human activity. Finding evidence of "climate change" on other planets suggests that maybe there are greater forces at play, and maybe "climate change" is actually part of a natural cycle.