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Huge Arctic Ozone Hole Leaves Scientists Gaping
The New American ^
| October 4, 2011
| Rebecca Terrell
Posted on 10/08/2011 9:59:44 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone
OMG! We must act fast and do something before all of the Arctic penguins disappear.
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posted on
10/08/2011 10:38:48 AM PDT
by
JPG
(America is worth saving. All hands on deck!)
To: Mr. K
Or, alternatively, somebody figures out your coolant might actually not be all that neat an idea ~ so at the moment it looks like maybe the Iceland supervolcano may be blowing off some fluorine we missed?
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posted on
10/08/2011 10:40:20 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: JPG
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posted on
10/08/2011 10:50:54 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Twotone
"It's the Mother Ship, hovering over Alaska, and it's coming to take the Black children home."
-Louis Farrakhan, noted Afrophysicist
To: 43north
Ozone is a free radical of oxygen. Regular oxygen is O2, Ozone is O3. No, it's not. O3 is an allotrope: an alternative metastable form of oxygen. Typically because it's less energetically favorable than O2 under low-atmospheric conditions, it breaks down into O2, and there are some reactions which can cause it to break down into allotropic free radicals; but O3 itself is an ordinary molecule, not a free radical.
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posted on
10/08/2011 10:59:49 AM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(We'll keep Independence Hall. New Jersey can have all the rest.)
To: null and void
Give them time. First they have to ban all fossil fuels.Ah, I see. So their aim is to have their edicts chiseled in stone, literally.
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:13:25 AM PDT
by
AndrewC
To: Twotone
Ban Asthma Inhalers!!!!
They Suck!
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:13:56 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Twotone
What if we someday discover that ozone depletion and global temperature fluctuations are natural processes not affected at all by human activity? And, yes, I want my freon back, too.
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posted on
10/08/2011 2:31:10 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/08/2011 3:52:10 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
To: steelyourfaith; SteamShovel; Tunehead54; golux; tubebender; Fractal Trader; Genesis defender; ...
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posted on
10/08/2011 3:53:44 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
To: Twotone
largest hole in the ozone layer over the North Pole in history
What history? And I thought all those hair spray aerosol bans would fix everything.
/grumble, nothing is ever fixed by Government, only God.
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posted on
10/08/2011 4:19:16 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
To: GOPJ
I get it, and it’s sad that I am forced to know how to get it.
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posted on
10/08/2011 4:22:31 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
To: FredZarguna
Thanks for the chemistry refresher... its been a while.
Now, can I please get a government grant?
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:24:11 PM PDT
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
To: Twotone
Will take decades to undo all the bad recent political science that has destroyed the scientific community. The Ozone phenomenon is very easy to understand. During the tail end of low solar activity periods, the ozone holes open up large. The reason is that less UV light was being emitted by the sun and less oxygen was converted into ozone as a result.
Now we are right in the early stages of what looks to be an average to below average solar maximum. So for the next few months we will see the worse of the very weak previous 5-6 years. This winter will be horrific. The good news is the recent activity, if it remains active, has stopped the cooling, but it will be awhile before we see net warming. Probably next summer at the earliest.
This actually is a very good situation to study the affect of the solar cycle. Just went through 5-6 low activity years and the past few winters have been nasty. Lets see how soon the activity from the maximum will start reversing the bad winters. If the activity levels remain were they are now, this winter will be the worse, followed by next winter which should be moderately warmer.
And I do not care what some idiots with a few measurements are claiming the global temperature average is or was. They are just idiots with too few and too inaccurate measurements. All that matters with respect to global cooling is the severity and length of the winter.
To: 43north
“Thanks for the chemistry refresher... its been a while.
Now, can I please get a government grant?”
Yes and in the true fashion of the gubmint, we need to give you twice the money because you were wrong the first time around, and you need those funds to study why your first study was flawed!! LOL
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posted on
10/08/2011 10:02:08 PM PDT
by
rikkir
(Political office should be a sacrifice, not a reward. Do your service and GO HOME!)
To: muawiyah
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posted on
10/09/2011 6:40:59 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Sarah you broke my heart~!! Endorse Cain and all is forgiven)
To: Always A Marine
""It's the Mother Ship, hovering over Alaska, and it's coming to take the Black children home." -Louis Farrakhan, noted Afrophysicist" Yup. Earth is no longer a safe place for the children of the land of 19.
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posted on
10/09/2011 7:12:18 AM PDT
by
blam
((Deliberate Cruelty Is The Worst Of Human Offenses - Kenko))
To: Mr. K
Freon isn't the only source of flourine on the planet. We have several volcanos that spew it out regularly. One of them is in Antarctica. One of them is in the North Atlantic.
Ever breath in a big gulp of fluorine?
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posted on
10/09/2011 7:23:50 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Mr. K; muawiyah
By the same reasoning no one would continue to manufacture a drug after the patent expired.
They’d make up some horrible side effect and manufacture inferior drugs to replace it.
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posted on
10/09/2011 7:36:50 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 991 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: Twotone
Can I have my CFCs back now?
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posted on
10/09/2011 7:38:49 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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