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9:53 AM on 06.11.2007
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Ozone of the Enders.
I'd make a game where you find the reason for global warming is all the polar bears keep bombing and diving off of tall icebergs. The ironic part is, it is then your duty to go and kill them all with flamethrowers, napalm and rocket launchers.
I would name it "Kill the cunting polar bears with fire cos they're like breaking the sea innit". Winnar?
Now what the fuck is Games for Change?
1. your a giant hippie and you must patch the hole in the ozone layer in the time limit.
2. gta type game where you just blow up suv's and other vehicles with a v8. also you must destroy manufacturing plants spewing CO2 and other nasties into the atmosphere, anyone else thinking plane or like a million satchles?
As explained above, the overall cause of ozone depletion is the presence of chlorine-containing source gases (primarily CFCs and related halocarbons). In the presence of UV light, these gases dissociate, releasing chlorine atoms, which then go on to catalyze ozone destruction. The Cl-catalyzed ozone depletion can take place in the gas phase, but it is dramatically enhanced in the presence of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs).[9]
These polar stratospheric clouds form during winter, in the extreme cold. Polar winters are dark, consisting of 3 months without solar radiation (sunlight). Not only lack of sunlight contributes to a decrease in temperature but also the “polar vortex” traps and chills air. Temperatures hover around or below -80 °C. These low temperatures form cloud particles and are composed of either nitric acid (Type I PSC) or ice (Type II PSC). Both types provide surfaces for chemical reactions that lead to ozone destruction.
The photochemical processes involved are complex but well understood. The key observation is that, ordinarily, most of the chlorine in the stratosphere resides in stable "reservoir" compounds, primarily hydrogen chloride (HCl) and chlorine nitrate (ClONO2). During the Antarctic winter and spring, however, reactions on the surface of the polar stratospheric cloud particles convert these "reservoir" compounds into reactive free radicals (Cl and ClO). The clouds can also remove NO2 from the atmosphere by converting it to nitric acid, which prevents the newly formed ClO from being converted back into ClONO2.
The role of sunlight in ozone depletion is the reason why the Antarctic ozone depletion is greatest during spring. During winter, even though PSCs are at their most abundant, there is no light over the pole to drive the chemical reactions. During the spring, however, the sun comes out, providing energy to drive photochemical reactions, and melt the polar stratospheric clouds, releasing the trapped compounds.
Most of the ozone that is destroyed is in the lower stratosphere, in contrast to the much smaller ozone depletion through homogeneous gas phase reactions, which occurs primarily in the upper stratosphere.
Stripe the problem with you're argument is that any climate scientists not funded by oil companies think global warming is a real problem, and the profit from An Inconvenient Truth was donated to the EPA.
It's funny when people who know nothing about science pretend to understand complex scientific issues.
Hmmm...
Baby seals FTW!
silly cloudman, this is for comments! this is not your blog! :)
While awesomely technical, your essay describes ozone depletion, not global warming. You need to add the final section that connects the two.
You'll also note that no one here outright denied that the climate was changing. They were decrying the scare tactics used to make us think that my drive to work this morning killed a baby seal in australia or something.
It's funny when people who know stuff about science totally forget to look at all the words around the numbers and actually think about social issues.
Sure global warming exists. It existed long before man became industrialized. It's called climate change, and it's been occurring in cycles for millions of years. Yes, we should be doing things to reduce pollution and fossil fuel dependence. That's just good sense. We should first make sure that any actions we take to improve the environment will have an actual positive effect instead of blinding throwing money towards the issue. Countries like India and China are two of the largest carbon emitters, yet how much international pressure do you see placed on them to change? The Kyoto Protocol is a fucking joke.
An Inconvenient Truth was mostly paranoid nonsense. Gore himself admitted he over-exaggerated the actual environmental threat in his documentary in order to convince people to accept his viewpoints. If I'm going to listen to an eco-nut, it's going to be someone like Ed Bagley Jr who actually walks the talk and not a politician who tries to claim he grew up on a farm (instead of living in a Washington D.C. hotel for 10 months out of the year, that's like me saying I grew up in Summer Camp) and flies around in a private jet wasting the same fuel he chides others for not conserving.
The fact of the matter is that humankind hasn't been a part of this planet's ecosystem for long enough for us to know what kind of effect is has on a planet that modern geologists agree (and because of that, I also believe) is aproximately 4.4 Billion years old. Humanity (and not even polluting humanity, ie. industrial era forward) is only believed to be 160,000 years old, many estimates are much less, 30 to 50 thousand years old. How exactly can we have any idea about how and when this planet changes temperature? Especially since basically all life as we know it comes from the sun, shouldn't changes in the sun's status effect earth as well? How much iron relative to helium is in the core of the sun at the moment? Do you know? What does this mean for our climate? WE DON'T KNOW. WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING (with current technology. Yes, we can know certain things about the sun. However, we can't make the connection between the emperical data we have from the sun now relative to the geological information we have detailing the past. Perhaps once we've been studying the sun for, oh . . . 10 or 15 thousand years, then we might have enough emperical evidence, REAL empirical evidence, for or against the case for human impact on global warming). Let's focus on the things we DO know about harmful pollutants and give up the fucking junk science.
I think it's pretty safe to assume tonnes of pollution a day put into the air over centuries won't have a positive effect on the planet.