Slashdot Mirror
Your Thoughts on the Great Ozone Debate?
Hrodvitnir asks: "Yesterday the BBC reported that the hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic is the largest on record. Today CNN says that it is recovering, or at least stabilized. Do we really know what's going on? Is this more bad science/false studies, or are they both partially right?"
Well aren't you a good anti-racist! The black guy has garbage bags full of items, obviously looting. The whites carrying bread and soda, absolute necessities, don't deserve to be ridiculed.
Ozone depletion is not, in any way, capable of affecting either the frequency or the severity of hurricanes, you idiot.
Global warming might affect both, but current consensus is that GM will make hurricanes less frequent, not more, and perhaps more severe, but not by a lot.
Either way, ozone depeltion isn't global warming, and you're an idiot.
Yeah, but there's a good reason for favoring China & India. The USA has had its chance to destroy the world. It's only fair to give China & India the same opportunity. At least, that's the argument I hear used.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Huh? Since when is gravitational acceleration not equal for objects of different masses? That is, if gravity is even a factor for gaseous ozone. If anything, it would diffuse slower due to larger mass.
Could you please do me a favor and go into a sealed room, open up a canister of CO2, heck open up a canister of O2 as well if you like, and then lie on the floor for a while? After all, according to your theory, the CO2 shouldn't diffuse downward any faster than the O2, right?
Of course, I doubt that anyone who has actually taken a chemistry class will be willing to join you on the floor, but that's probably because they stayed awake for the lecture about relative density/bouancy of fluids.To be fair, the OP should have said density rather than mass, but I get the feeling that wouldn't have helped you.
"There is a thin line between ignorance and arrogance, and only I have managed to erase that line." - Dr. Science
The Ozone Hole...
That's the religious icon of the "educated" class prior to Global Warming. So they passed a bunch of laws and now it will cost me $2000 to fix (make that "replace") the AC in my car. But the damn hole is still there and they have no f--king clue why.
I predict they will be just as clueless in a few decades when the temperatures are below their current Chicken Little prognostications.
This is what happens when Science is replaced by Politically Correct fanaticism.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.