Posted on 02/24/2005 11:55:07 AM PST by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
I haven't either, to tell you the truth. The premise is that the UV rays' energy actually creates ozone by combining O2 and free oxygen into O3 (please, please keep me honest on this, folks). The CFCs suck up the free oxygen by combining with it, thereby robbing the outer layer of the atmosphere of the free oxygen needed to create the ozone and thereby suck the energy out of the UV rays.
Having said that, there is no connection between any supposed ozone layer effect and global warming. Two different issues.
I'd recommend Michael Crichton's "State of Fear".
If the earth was 6 degrees warmer 1000 years ago, shouldn't all of the antarctic ice have melted then? Is 1000 years long enough for it to refreeze? Was Manhattan Island completely under water?
If 6 degrees didn't melt the antarctic ice, why would anyone think a half degree of warming would melt it?
I think we're on the same page.
Is is just me, or is this statement 180degrees out of whack?
I heartily second that!
The envirowhacks are scrambling at this point. There is so much data contradicting their premises that they've switched from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" as the big issue.
It is the land masses, islands, etc. that have risen or sunk that give some the view that the ocean level is going up/down. Just look at the before and after maps of the recent Asian Tsunami disaster.
You know its proof how stupid most people are that you and those who think like you are not in charge.
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You do know people who think like you killed 100 MILLION of their own people last century.
Now what was the theme for the first 'earth-day'?????....I remember! THE COMMING MAN MADE ICEAGE!
idiots.....
Ozone is regenerated constantly by the interaction of the solar winds, and the electromagnetic forces at the poles, as well as lightning strikes worldwide, and the Viking Kitties.
PERSPECTIVES: RISING CO2 LEVELS - THE REASON WHY ~~The earth has a cycle
"Retreat of Antarctic Ice Shelves Is Not New, Report Says"
I've heard of Italian ice but could it be that we have discovered "French ice"?
I note from reading Michael Crichton's new book, that global warming adherents often mention that the ice sheets are retreating in Antarctica. What they do not mention is that this is happening in only one relatively small area of Antarctica. Ice sheets in the rest of Antarctica, the vast majority of them are, in fact, advancing. So the question is: can we also blame the advancing ice sheets on mankind?
Those heavy chloro-flouro-carbon molecules get to our outer atmosphere the same way those heavy ozone molecules do...
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I knew it! That's the same thing my wife says.
This article is a grab bag of bad science and bad statistic driven by an agenda. for example:
The ozone layer blocks UV, and is purported to be diminished by chloroflourocarbons. There's no linkage of ozone "depletion" to global temperatures is there?
The average atmospheric CO2 level for the last 900K years may be 280 ppm, but there have been large, cyclical variations with the maxima puntuated by ice ages.
As long as we're talking personal beliefs, it's mine that the Earth is doing what it's always done. The evidence points toward a future iceage. If man has done anything to hasten or delay the onset of climate change it's more akin to a fart in a hurricane than to one in church.
Alaska will become a desert. It already would be a dusty desert except for the permafrost, and when the permafrost is gone the one foot a year of precipitation won't amount to much.
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