Re: [Paddlewise] Winter in a time of Climate Change

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Mike Euritt <sixteenfeet_at_sbcglobal.net>wrote:

>
> I've been suckered in the past with "science supported"
> doom and gloom, most recently Y2K, but remember clearly predictions of dead
> oceans in the 80's accompanied by catastrophic ocean rising, repeated in
> the
> 90's, global cooling of the 60's, Hole in the Ozone. Believe if you like,
> but
> the record of the doomsday prophets being correct is 0. I look at the
> weather
> map and see lots of cold everywhere, much of it erlier than normal and
> colder
> than normal. Which is, of course, absolute proof of GW...
>

Ok.... let's ignore the dead oceans (this was Jacque Cousteau, after all)
and the global cooling and cut right into the Hole in the Ozone layer.

This is actually an example of how scientists saved the world. I'm pretty
sure. At any rate, let's recap. Someone discovered that the Ozone Layer
(which stops most UV radiation from the sun from killing all ife on the
earth) had a hole in it.Luckily enough it was over places that didn't much
matter; like Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica, so we had lots of time
to figure out what the heck was going on before the hole spread to the
important bits.

It turned out that the hole was caused by chemical reactions (Kruger can
probably explain this in terms no one else can understand) triggered by the
use of a type of chemicals called "chloroflourocarbons" which was
conveniently translated into CFCs for the rest of us.  It turned out that
CFCs were in lots of useful things like refrigerators, air conditioners and
heat pumps, cleaning agents (we thought they were non-reactive.... the joke
was on us) and every single spray can of whatever needed to be sprayed out.

Well we stopped using CFCs. You probably didn't even notice. As it happens,
CFCs were really not that critical and a whole 'nother industry was born. If
you go to the auto parts store to recharge your air conditioner now you get
a coolant that is not a CFC but a substitute. And the ozone hole closed up.
Now we can go back to sending the undesirables of society back to those
places without fear of litigation for undue meany-ness. And the world was
saved.

Oh ya... cold weather and Global Warming..... ok... one more post.


Craig Jungers
Moses Lake, WA
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