


Is our lifestyle threatening our planet? The EPA thinks so.











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RE: In the future
By raddude9 on 12/8/2009 2:51:48 PM , Rating: 1
yep, just like all that money wasted on those acid rain and ozone layer scares.

RE: In the future
By JediJeb on 12/8/2009 5:28:00 PM , Rating: 2
It's funny but what has been found is that the hole in the ozone closes as the global temperature rises. So did fixing the ozone cause global warming or did global warming fix the ozone?

That was something from the Discovery Channel the other day, but what most people don't understand about ozone is that it takes UV light to create it, so as my chemistry professor said, you are going to have a hole in the ozone layer at the south pole because at times there is no UV light there to create the ozone. Also how long have we had accurate measurments of the ozone layer anyhow? We didn't even know there was a hole in it until we sent a satelite up to study it, so we based the horribly growing ozone hole on a few years of data. It could have been returning to its normal size by getting bigger. The people pushing this legislation are looking at a planet billions of years old and saying what the climate should be by taking a sample for a few hundred years, because that is the true limit of our accurate data, everything else is just estimations. And as we move to more modern ways to measure that data, it throws more variability into the older data. It is like measuring a one inch diameter rock with a yardstick then measuring it with a vernier caliper and saying it grew because it is now a 1.001 inch rock.

