It's not like CFCs are fine now according to the article,
In the upper stratosphere (above roughly 18 km), ozone recovery can be explained almost entirely by CFC reductions. "Up there, the Montreal Protocol seems to be working," says co-author Mike Newchurch of the Global Hydrology and Climate Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
And later in the same article:
Sorting out cause and effect is difficult, but a group of NASA and university researchers may have made some headway. Their new study, entitled "Attribution of recovery in lower-stratospheric ozone," was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. It concludes that about half of the recent trend is due to CFC reductions.
Secondly, the Montreal Protocol was about the ozone depletion in other areas like Northern Europe and Canada, not just the hole over Antactica.
If one wants to argue that ozone depletion was nothing to worry about or some kind of myth, one needs to refer to sources beyond this article since that's not what it says.
The Abrupt Climate Change FAQ from the Union of Concerned Scientists, has a lot to say on the subject and the movie:
Can what happens in The Day After Tomorrow happen in real life?
No. The dramatic, virtually instantaneous and widespread cooling envisioned in the film is fiction. But like all good science fiction, the film is premised on several important scientific facts. We know with great certainty that the Earth is already warming, largely because as we burn fossil fuels and clear forests we are releasing carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. This warming is expected to continue in the coming decades, accompanied by changes in rainfall patterns and rising sea levels. The possibility of an abrupt shift in the climate system is only one feature of a changing climate that is expected to become more erratic, with extreme weather events like droughts, torrential rainfall, and extreme heat becoming more common. We can slow down global warming and reduce the likelihood of future abrupt climate changes by reducing our emissions of heat-trapping gases.
The other interesting thing it mentions is that Abrupt Climage Change refers to changes that happen over years to decades as opposed to climate change that is happening now over decades and centuries. Make no mistake, we have changed our climate more in the last hundred years than in the previous thousand years.
Do you have a source that suggests the moon is getting closer? According to this article, (and many others) it's been moving further away. The water levels will rise drastically in the next few years probably but it will be due to global warming, not the moon.
partimage works pretty well for that and costs nothing. It's not GUI though and would be scary for novices to use especially since you have to understand how Linux numbers drive letters and mount the partition you're backing up to. If you have 256 MB RAM (or a burner on a separate drive than the CD you boot partimage from), I believe you can backup a partition directly to CD-RW or DVD+/-R.
Mount Ararat is named in the Bible as the resting place of the Ark. That section of the Bible was written more than 2000 years ago. Scientific principles absolutely demand that someone must go up there and search for it.
Actually, that's not what the Bible says. Genesis 8:4 says (KJV):
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Note the plural form, mountains. Ararat was a kingdom.
Ararat is related to the Assyrian Urartu, which became an extensive and mountainous kingdom, including much of the territory north of Mesopotamia and east of modern Turkey (NIV Study Bible notes on this verse).
I think it's silly to try to prove something from a story that many Biblical scholars believe to be allegorical, especially when there is no scientific evidence to any part of the Noah story. But hey, it's their dime!
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It's not like CFCs are fine now according to the article,
And later in the same article:
Secondly, the Montreal Protocol was about the ozone depletion in other areas like Northern Europe and Canada, not just the hole over Antactica.
If one wants to argue that ozone depletion was nothing to worry about or some kind of myth, one needs to refer to sources beyond this article since that's not what it says.
The Abrupt Climate Change FAQ from the Union of Concerned Scientists, has a lot to say on the subject and the movie:
The other interesting thing it mentions is that Abrupt Climage Change refers to changes that happen over years to decades as opposed to climate change that is happening now over decades and centuries. Make no mistake, we have changed our climate more in the last hundred years than in the previous thousand years.
Do you have a source that suggests the moon is getting closer? According to this article, (and many others) it's been moving further away. The water levels will rise drastically in the next few years probably but it will be due to global warming, not the moon.
partimage works pretty well for that and costs nothing. It's not GUI though and would be scary for novices to use especially since you have to understand how Linux numbers drive letters and mount the partition you're backing up to. If you have 256 MB RAM (or a burner on a separate drive than the CD you boot partimage from), I believe you can backup a partition directly to CD-RW or DVD+/-R.
You do know that most hockey players are American, right?
Actually, that's not what the Bible says. Genesis 8:4 says (KJV):
Note the plural form, mountains. Ararat was a kingdom.
I think it's silly to try to prove something from a story that many Biblical scholars believe to be allegorical, especially when there is no scientific evidence to any part of the Noah story. But hey, it's their dime!
Actually, I'm pretty sure they stagger the times going west and east so that the polls close earlier in the west now.