Environmental Mental Illness

There were some new environmental rumblings coming out of the United Nations last week. They’re lecturing us about the Ozone layer…AGAIN..

Any time the UN starts talking about the environment, you better hold onto your wallet or purse because changes are likely coming as a result of their astute misconceptions that will ultimately cost Americans money.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the renowned champions of the Earth’s arch enemy--Global Warming, just released their newest report entitled ”Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System: Issues Relating to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons.”

Now don’t let your eyes glaze over with hydro-technico-mumbo-jumbo here. I’m going to keep this discussion simple.

You remember the Ozone Layer, don’t you? You know—Ozone—the stuff that resides way up high in the atmosphere and that is supposed to protect the Earth from excess solar radiation and prevent us from all getting skin cancer. Yeah, that’s right—O-Z-O-N-E.

Ozone was the number one climate issue that the “experts” and the media instructed school children and adults alike to worry about back in the 1980’s before they had Global Warming to toss out on the world environmental stage to spark the guilt of all of us evil capitalists.

Subsequent to the UN holding a conference in Vienna, Italy in 1985 and another in Montreal Canada in 1987, the UN adopted and the United States ratified the Montreal Protocol Treaty. In short, this agreement caused everyone here in the US to change the type of refrigerant used in their car air conditioners, changed the kind of aerosol propellants used in hairspray and deodorant, and made expensive, intrusive changes in industries like insulation and foam manufacturers—all in the name of “protecting the Ozone Layer.”

Eighteen years after the fact, the IPCC is still screwing around making recommendations and reviewing their progress and guess what they have found and reported? Some of the things they asked us to do apparently have had absolutely no effect on the Ozone layer and some may have had an adverse effect.

That is, if you happen to believe that anything that humans do actually has any affect at all on the amount of Ozone in the Stratosphere.

AP-France has this to say about the report:

“International scientists have called for more cuts in the chemicals used in refrigerators, air conditioning units and plastic foams, and better recycling in an attempt to reduce their harmful impact on climate.

The recommendation by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) came in a report that aims to address conflicting efforts to restore the ozone layer agreed 18 years ago, and more recent measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Chemicals used to replace substances harmful to the Earth's protective ozone layer in products like refrigerators under the 1987 Montreal Protocol, as well as the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) they substituted, are greenhouse gases that many scientists say cause climate change.

The reports says many of these chemicals are regarded as far more powerful than carbon dioxide, whose emissions are the focus of cuts under the Kyoto Protocol climate change treaty, which came into force in February.

"There can be no trade-offs between saving the ozone layer and minimising climate change," says Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the UN environmental agency UNEP.”

So they have us in a catch-22 here. They say that we have to do something to fix the Ozone Layer, that what we have done so far has been ineffective or might have been harmful (even though they told us to do it,) and that whatever we do in the future has to be done in a manner that will not further contribute to Global Warming.

I have some news for you folks…

HUMAN ACTIVITIES HAVE VIRTUALLY NO EFFECT ON THE OZONE LAYER.

It is the ultimate arrogance to believe that we can control the dynamics of the earth’s atmosphere. If we could accomplish such feats, we should get busy stopping tornadoes and hurricanes and start a little rain falling in Saharan Africa.

With that thought in mind, look at what these scientists are saying about the influence of the Sun on the Ozone Layer:

“The gigantic solar storms of November 2003 severely depleted the ozone layer above the Arctic for as long as eight months, suggest newly released satellite observations. Ozone levels had reduced to just 40% of normal spring levels in 2004.

"We have never seen ozone close to this level in the northern hemisphere," says Cora Randall, a researcher with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, US, and one of the study team.

Ozone in Earth's stratosphere protects the planet against harmful ultraviolet radiation. Most of the gas lies in the lower- and mid-stratosphere, where observations have shown a thinning above the poles caused mainly by man-made chemicals, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

Now, Randall and her team have used seven satellites to study ozone in the upper region of the stratosphere, which contains about one-fifth of the stratosphere's supply and lies at an altitude of about 40 kilometres. Their observations show that nature can mimic manmade damage by increasing levels of nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere, which lead to the breakdown of ozone.”

So, I ask you—who are you going to believe? What are you going to believe? They can’t make up their minds what to tell us…the sun did it…no, wait, it is a man-made problem.

I am so tired of the United Nations and the self proclaimed “environmentalists” using inadequate data to scare old people and children and pass unnecessary laws and treaties designed to regulate my life.

These people DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.

We didn’t even know that the ozone layer existed until the 1900’s and we had no way to measure it until we launched some satellites the late 1970’s. As a result, how can they tell us anything except what has been happening over the past 30 years? Suppose that the ozone layer was non existent in the 1400’s or that it was twice as dense in the 1700’s?

How in God’s name can these overeducated pseudo-scientists at the UN tell us that human activity since the industrial revolution or that our activities here in America since the age of the automobile and fossil fuel has one single thing to do with the Ozone layer?

Just like we can’t control volcanic eruptions that have possibly contributed to the 1 degree global temperature rise over the past 100 years, we most definitely can’t tell the Sun to stop having sunspots and shooting solar flares.

Do you understand where I’m coming from?