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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?"
the goverment in New Orleans thought so, and look what happened
its real and its here, get used to it
my great idea (and i hope you think so, too) is to FIX the hole... the idea(pops). /didnt RTFA
take what i say with a grain of salt, a dash of pepper, a pinch of oregano, and an itty bitty little drip of faygo
BBC: Most LIBERIAL news machine ever built.
CNN: BBC wanna be's
Who am I going to believe - myself. These people have no f-in clue what their talking about.
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.
...and that carbon dioxide comes primarily from where? Fires? Volcanoes? Animals breathing? Decaying animals and plants?
Your post implies the majority of carbon dioxide comes from industrial processes. It does not. There's a huge difference between FUD and shrouded political agenda (what you are doing) and reality.
Besides that, you claim is completely ludicrous. 75% of carbon dioxide which "has been pumped" (huh? pumped? Oh, you mean factory emissions?) in the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution is still there? Oh, really? Prove it.
Does factory-created CO2 have a different composition that that made from fires? Amazing! You have discovered a new reality!
Pssst! Hey, guess what, the industrial revolution led to people having electricity and natural gas being delivered to their homes and businesses.
Pssst! Hey, guess what, that means they aren't burning coal or wood fires.
Pssst! Hey, guess what, your premise is bs.
Cindy Sheehan can kiss my ass. She doesnt speak for anyone except hippie loving freaks. The situation down in NO is bad, no one was prepared for a city 20 feet below sea level, that bitch has no right to speak about that. Stick to camping on Bush's lawn you fucking cunt!
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.
CFC's are man-made. CFC's destroy lots of ozone. CFC's travel into the stratosphere. Forget logic. Let's just wait a billion years or so until we have more data points to do something.
Shooting your mouth off is really easy if you take no time to do any research.
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.