The Ozone a Hole in the TheoryThe protective ozone layer around our world undergoes much thought and debate. The "Hole", however, only exists in the minds of environmental

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The Ozone a Hole in the Theory The protective ozone layer around our world undergoes much thought and debate. The "Hole", however, only exists in the minds of environmental, self-serving scientists and politicians. It interests many to find all the faults in the publics consensus of the "ozone depletion." Most scientists do not believe in this "depletion", they think it is a natural phenomenon. Ozone gasses come into view as consideration over what gasses are actually accused for this awful crime of destroying the ozone. But what do these invisible murderers really do (or don’t do)? Some actually think that these cursed elements of air help rather than hinder the earth! Volcanoes put yet another damper on the ozone theory. Can humans actually over power volcanoes and other natural causes? The most debated of the gasses, Fluorocarbons (CFCs), now come into view. What of the controversy of 1947? The flaws in the CFC theory overshadow its relevance. Even though no decisive proof exists major coun! tries in the world will ban CFCs in the year 2000 due to the Montreal Protocol. What exactly does this banning entail, and how will it affect us? Environmentalists insist that because of the "depleting ozone" harmful ultra-violet (UV) rays seep through the ozone causing UV and cancer levels to soar. How seriously can the populous take these claims? One alleged problem that goes hand in hand with ozone "depletion", the greenhouse effect, also goes under debate. After little study one can see the irony between these conflicting theories. Some think that the greenhouse "warming" is natural and that the theory is flawed and trivial. One alleged cause of the greenhouse effect, CO2, gets blamed for this crime. Government documents try to tackle this problem only failing with contradiction in itself. The publics consensus on the ozone depletion changes daily in degrees, but the fear always returns when this subject gets brought up. People become afraid because of the hyperventilation from the media and environmental groups. Groups such as these claim how that ozone levels reduce year by year, month by month, day by day (Haimson). The believing and overall ignorant population believe all of it as if it were fact. Just like blind sheep following blind guides. Much to the dismay of these same groups of scientists now see that human kind cannot possibly hurt let alone destroy the ozone layer. In fact the very same scientist who invented the instrument used to measure ozone believes the threat of depletion is exaggerated(Singer)! Other scientists say how a super nova 340,000 years ago disrupted ten to twenty percent of the ozone layer(Limbaugh-178). A SUPER NOVA only disrupted twenty percent! How can humans compare with such an awesome and great a force? The human rac! e has become so caught up in how great and powerful the human population think they have become that they cannot see how truly minuscule they really are. Just think how much force it would take to put a hole in the ozone, or eliminate it one hundred percent in certain areas, if a super nova only depleted it twenty percent. Some scientist stress this point to argue how holes in the ozone never really exist. They claim instead that the ozone only thins from its peak from time to time(Howard). Even this claim sounds like a natural phenomenon just like an ocean tide, perhaps. No one has revealed, in fact, any evidence that long term global ozone levels decline(Bidinotto). The Gallup Poll of February 1992 polled climateologists and atmospheric physicists and found that seventeen percent say they believe the ozone hole is real while eighty-three percent disagree(Howard). Of course the news media would never report of such things, all too happy (and true). Derek Barton, a No! bel prize winning chemist once said "There’s so much propaganda [around the ozone issue] that I just don’t believe it(Begley-71)." One might ask after hearing all the augments if the ozone "depletion" actually occurs naturally. One scientist shows that the ozone actually does vary twenty-five percent each day and another twenty-five percent each year(Ponte-30). This says that all the reports of ozone depletion is accounted for NATURALLY. Some think of the ozone as water in a moving saucer. Just as the water in a saucer the ozone varies in depth from place to place and moment by moment so as not to be able to measure it accurately. Volcanoes and earthquakes and other periodical natural occurrences might cause this natural variation(Howard). Our world has very complex properties making it and its properties unpredictable, further its shear magnitude make it uncontrollable. Man kind must stop worrying about things it cannot fully understand and
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connot possibly control. Su! nspots explain one theory of why scientists claim to have ozone measurements that support environmentalist ideas. At eleven year intervals, ozone in the upper atmosphere increase by five percent which suggest the influence of the sunspot cycle. (Ponte-30) Where scientist claim "holes" occupy, natural factors account for entirely. Factors such as temperature, air currents, and surface pressure(Lutgens, Tarback-185-186, 189-190). Along with not mentioning the fact that all ozone activity occurs naturally, environmental scientists and the media have also failed to mention a few facts that eliminate most if not all fear of ozone depletion. For example, ...

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