Ozone Layer

During the mid 80s, the world was going to end because CFCs were destroying the Ozone Layer. Then they went silent. During the mid 80s, the world was going to end because CFCs were destroying the Ozone Layer. The histrionics were off the chart; skin cancer, death, the hole was going to kill us all. Then they got the Montreal treaty that would be phased in over 10+ years (and would take 75 years to matter), but they moved on to the next big thing. Showing that it was way overblown. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2022-01-22

Facts

• The idea was that CFCs could destroy a lot of ozone in the troposphere, because they can down near sea level. The fact that many variants of CFCs were heavier than air and wouldn't have a way to get up there, was often ignored. Just like it was discovered before CFCs were in use, and it went away before CFCs bans could have made a difference, was also ignored. People that pointed that out were attacked as Science Deniers.

• (1) They talked about the ozone for years as a manmade crisis (2) they did it through lies of omission (like the holes were observed started in 1957 before they started using CFCs, and it was seasonal (3) You never hear about it anymore (4) We haven't healed the old thinning issues -- the only thing that's changed is the rate of decay has decreased slightly. (As we stopped warming as quickly) -- but nothing was fixed or even changed that much.

• As earth is a greenhouse, the Ozone "hole" (thinning) expands or contracts based on upper atmospheric temperature to help regulate the climate. It was always seasonal, and responds to climate. (We didn't survive billions of years and with 10x higher CO2, unless the earth had built in feedback loops to heal itself). So there are many that believe CFCs had nothing to do with it. And thus the mitigations was a billion dollar mistake.
  • They also claimed that there was an Ozone hole in the Arctic, and it was cooling the earth because the heat is escaping from the earth and would cause an Ice Age.

• The Montreal Treaty was signed, but that doesn't mean it's complied with. The U.S. phased out CFC's that were too heavy to get into the upper atmosphere; but in Asia and the emerging economies, they still use R22s freely. Of course the big chemical companies didn't care -- they found off-list substitutes, that were more expensive, and this forced demand for that higher margin product. So what's not to like?

• Now there's a bigger Ozone hole over the tropics, and the media doesn't care. If this was a political issue, it makes sense; they've moved on. They're getting more traction with globalist marxism using climate change. But if it's a science issue, one would ask, why don't they care?

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🔗 Links

• Wikipedia:Ozone_layer
• https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/ozone-the-hole-truth
• https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1989/eirv16n36-19890908/eirv16n36-19890908_009-the_bronfmans_part_ii_the_ozone.pdf
• https://uwaterloo.ca/wat-on-earth/news/telling-little-green-lies
• https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0094629
• Debunking the myth: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3592885
• China may have addressed CFC-11's -- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00360-0

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