South America Ozone: In an website called Solcomhouse, there is abundant (mis)information about ALL issues related with the environment and ecology, from the panda bear and elephants, to global warming and the ozone layer hoax. We analyzed and comment this website - and got moments of good laughs. (22-june-2004)

Interesting Facts About the Antarctic Polar Vortex: One of the most important things to note about the so-called Antarctic ozone hole is that some of the most complex and least-understood atmospheric chemical reactions occur during the four-to-six-week duration of the ozone hole. According to Eberstein, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center "There is no proven chemical mechanism to account for the creation of the ozone hole. This is a very serious failure. If you have a theory, you should be able to provide a definitive mechanism. Otherwise is pure speculation. This Antarctic ozone depletion issue has to be put on a more solid scientific basis."

Ozone Layer Homeostasis : "The greens would make us believe the world is small, that it is delicate and we are destroying it. I've watched their ranks swell to overflowing and heard their voices grow to a thunder. And still, there is something I know deep in my heart. They are wrong. The world is not delicate. It is strong. It is robust, it is alive, teeming with life and we are a part of it. We are not destroying the world. In fact, we are not affecting it in the smallest part."

Amazing Calculations! : "Take another close look at the last figure: more than 3.7 million years for depleting just 10% of the new ozone produced every year! Even more: how much would have UV radiation increased after 3,7 million years? 5%?, 10, 20% perhaps?" ... "According to studies made by Isidoro Orlansky & Enrique Martinez, from the Physics Laboratory at the Buenos Aires National University, Argentina, (LAGE) after research on Mini-Ozone Holes over Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, found that a 50% decrease in ozone values yielded a mere 15% of UV radiation increase. So a 25% decrease in ozone levels will result in a mere 7,5% increase of UV radiation, the increase naturally produced from one week to another during springtime.

CRISTA-SPA Project Crista-Spas is a group of instruments (Crista), deployed on a space platform (Spas), that measures atmospheric gases in such detail that it can create three-dimensional images of the distribution of the gases in the stratosphere. As the German scientists from the University of Wuppertal and the German Space Agency (DARA) together with NASA, told the press, these 3-D images show that the models behind the ozone depletion scare are completely, and axiomatically, wrong. In the words of Germany's Die Welt newspaper Nov. 7, the evidence presented at this press conference means that "all ozone computer models produced so far have, in effect, turned into waste paper.

Play It Safe: Take Sun at Noon!: The written media, TV stations, radio, and anyone that have a voice that can be heard, have been repeating what dermatologists, environmental NGOs, and public officials say, recommending not to expose to the sun rays between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, especially since the "ozone layer problem had aggravated" and "destruction of the ozone layer allows greater amount of UV-B radiation to pass through the atmosphere", and that "there is the risk of contracting skin cancers, malignant melanomas and cataracts" Well. Nothing of the sort is true

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