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To: defenderSD
Careful here....As far as I know the science behind the banning of freon is solid.

No, it isn't- if you will review all the information available, an equal number of scientists & researchers looked at the same data, and reached the opposite conclusion.

Their voices were not given any forum by the press.

There is a still-active volcano in Italy which spews about 4 quadrillion tons of flourine compounds into the atmospere per year- yet we were told the backyard mechanic's cracking of pound cans of Freon were damamging the Earth. It does not add up in either case.

45 posted on 02/05/2003 1:39:19 AM PST by backhoe (Has that "Clinton Legacy" made you feel safer yet?)
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To: backhoe
"An equal number of scientists & researchers looked at the same data, and reached the opposite conclusion."

What data are you talking about? And it's not the backyard mechanics that could cause a problem, it's large-scale industrial users. I know that volcanos spew a lot of chemicals into the air, but not all flourine compounds can react with ozone. It takes a specific kind of compound that can initiate this chain reaction in the conditions of the upper atmosphere. I think too that it's important to understand that chemical reactions in the ozone layer are not that well understood, and the banning of CFC's was largely a precautionary measure because the risks from ozone depletion are so severe. If the risks were not so severe, we wouldn't have acted to prevent a potential problem. (It's a lot like Iraq today.)

56 posted on 02/09/2003 1:19:12 AM PST by defenderSD
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