Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/08/2011 9:59:44 AM PDT by Twotone
The science journal Nature is making headlines this week with news of the largest hole in the ozone layer over the North Pole in history, rivaling the size of its well known Antarctic cousin. Researchers credit this "unprecedented Arctic ozone loss" to "unusually long-lasting cold conditions" in the stratosphere at a time when their colleagues are in turmoil over melting Arctic sea ice a few miles below, supposedly caused by man-made global warming. Of course, humans are also responsible for the chilly stratosphere, they say. With sky-is-falling overtones the article's authors warn, "We cannot at present predict when such severe Arctic ozone depletion may be matched or exceeded."
OMG! We must act fast and do something before all of the Arctic penguins disappear.
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?
What about Santa!?!?
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.
Ah, I see. So their aim is to have their edicts chiseled in stone, literally.
Ban Asthma Inhalers!!!!
They Suck!
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.
What history? And I thought all those hair spray aerosol bans would fix everything.
/grumble, nothing is ever fixed by Government, only God.
I get it, and it’s sad that I am forced to know how to get it.
Thanks for the chemistry refresher... its been a while.
Now, can I please get a government grant?
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.
“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
huh?
Yup. Earth is no longer a safe place for the children of the land of 19.
Ever breath in a big gulp of fluorine?
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.
Can I have my CFCs back now?
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