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To: Sir Napsalot

Funny how nobody mentions that the ozone layer is something that is in a constant state of decay AND regeneration.

Ozone is O-3... a very unstable form of Oxygen.

It is generated by open sparks (such as lightning), and the interraction between ultraviolet light (sun) and O2 (oxygen)

Ozone when generated quickly (within minutes to 2 hrs) loses one of it’s 3 oxygen atoms to become O-2 again. Free radicals of oxygen (O-1) quickly find another O-1 or other carbon based molecules to bond with.

O-3 itself is heavier than O-2 and will sink through the air until it dissipates... so the ozone layer is really nothing more than an altitude at which the generation of O-3 is optimized based upon levels of ultraviolet light and oxygen in the air.

Yes... the ozone layer IS being destroyed... completely... over and over again.

But what they don’t tell you is that it is rebuilding itself at the same rate.

We CANNOT destroy the ozone layer... PERIOD.
We would have to put out the sun and/or suck out all of the oxygen from our atmosphere.


14 posted on 07/27/2012 9:30:50 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Safrguns

OOOOO - you used FACTS and real SCIENCE — you know that’s not approved without being able to point to a degree from some high-powered and overpriced university. /s

Good post with basic science and chemistry that should be understood by most so they’re not suckered into believing the alarmists.


16 posted on 07/27/2012 9:52:19 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Safrguns

>>> We would have to put out the sun and/or suck out all of the oxygen from our atmosphere.

Shhh, or THEY will ask for more funding for such research.


17 posted on 07/27/2012 10:04:10 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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