Arctic Ozone Depletion

1. There are reports that a large hole in the Arctic Ozone layer has formed this year.
2. The Ozone layer protects us from radiation - especially solar ultraviolet, but also from some cosmic radiation.
3. The Ozone is formed by the radiation itself acting upon the atmosphere's oxygen, changing it from the normal O2 version to Ozone's O3 arrangement.

Amidst the alarming stories of widespread exposure to high levels of UV radiation due to this event, the reporting does say that an unusual set of circumstances conspired to create conditions where Chlorine-based compounds have been able to deplete the Ozone. Along with that analysis tends to be the alarmist cry that this might become an annual event.
Somehow the editors (?) of these reports can't see that if events occur annually, they don't really qualify to be called unusual circumstances.
It seems they can't see that the general rule would be that if there's not enough ozone, that's because there's not enough radiation to form it. Of course, admitting that would mean admitting that the sun is cooling - or at least we're receiving less radiation from it - and that we're headed for another Ice Age.

Posted by Procrustes 17

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The Ice Age is Coming, Baby!

1. All the latest information indicates that planet Earth is headed for another Ice Age:
   
   • Sunspot activity is down and declining - just google Maunder Minimum
   • Solar magnetic fields are declining in strength - by more than fifty gauss!
2. In Ice Ages past, there is evidence that earlier humans were able to move to non-glaciated areas by boat or walking or other means of transportation.
   
   • It's widely accepted that the Salutrean people sailed along the ice front across the North Atlantic.
   • They settled in Maryland and Virginia - avoiding the ice that covered all of Great Britain and so forth.
3. The Clovis people in North America were those Salutrean guys, and they got partially creamed by another mini-Ice Age.
   
   • Their descendents were the Folsom people, who learned to make spear tips and whatnot from their Clovis forebears.
   • The Folsom people found themselves nearly imprisoned by Ice down in New Mexico and such.
4. The big difference between them and us is:
   
   • They had lots of unoccupied and wide-open areas full of prey and berries for new homelands.
   • Where we gonna go? We already have all the good places filled, and only farmers know how to make food now, not normal people.
5.  When the Ice Age hits, ice skating on the Thames will only be fun for so long.
   
• Then it's fighting to keep the Polar Bears on the other side of Hadrian's Wall or the Watling Street. After not that much longer, it will be the Maginot line all over, baby! 
• Where can we get coffee when there's no place warm to grow it?
  GLOBAL CATASTROPHE!

All true facts are welcome - just look them up and share!

Posted by Procrustes 17