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Tracey-Levin wrote:
> 
> Who believes the leftists when they claim the polar caps are melting, and that
> some hole has developed in the Ozone layer???    Let me tell you something you
> probably don't know because they won't tell you....In winter months, the ozone
> hole develops because of a lack of sunlight!  Yes, thats right, and here in
> Houston, we have Ozone alerts all summer.....Why?????  Why don't we have them
> in the winter?????  Because there is not enough sunlight to produce high
> levels of Ozone.
> 
> SO, the commie left takes a natural event and uses it to put fear in the
> hearts of Americans......Note how few scientists will step forward to tell the
> whole truth!
> Do you know why???
> 
> The commie left is evil, and a threat to liberty.
> 
> Tracey

Tracey, with all due respect, you're a complete idiot.

The amount of sunlight reaching the earth is roughly the same at any given
time. The reason that there are ozone holes at the poles and not elsewhere
is because the sunlight impinging upon the atmosphere if doing so at an
oblique angle, and is mostly bounced away instead of penetrating to the
levels where energetic interactions between ultraviolet light and oxygen
molecules will create ozone. Actually, it does pepetrate to some degreer,
but the rate of ozone formation is less than the rate of ozone depletion due
to the presence of chloroflourocarbons (freon, etc). In the tropics, the
depth of penetration is much greater, and more ozone is formed than is
destroyed by freon. 

In Houston, you get the Ozone alerts because that's when inversion layers
trap ozones which are created at ground level by _internal combustion
engines_. If those could somehow be gotten up to the ozone layer, they'd be
doing something useful such as shielding us from ultraviolet radiation. But
as it is, ground-level ozone does nothing but irritate the lungs and eyes.
You don't get this as much in winter in Houston because of the constant rain
and breeze washing the ozone out to sea or dissolving the ozone into the
rainwaters.

When you base your politics on a complete misunderstanding of science, your
politics are going to make about as much sense as the politics of the town
fathers of Salem Massachusetts, when they mistook a case of ergot poisoning
and teen hysteria for witchcraft.


--
The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of
the emperors.  They preserved peace by a constant preparation for war; and
while justice regulated their conduct, they announced to the nations on
their confines that they were as little disposed to endure as to offer an
injury.    --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (The Antonines)