Well, it was fun while it lasted:
Strong summer storms that pump water high into the upper atmosphere pose a threat to the protective ozone layer over the United States, researchers said on Thursday, adding that the risk of damage may increase as the climate warms.
In a study published online by the journal Science, Harvard University scientists reported that some storms send water vapor well into the stratosphere -which is normally drier than a desert -and showed how such events could rapidly set off ozone-destroying reactions with chemicals that remain in the atmosphere from CFCs, the now-banned refrigerant gases.
Nature is indifferent. It occurs to me that all of this panicky arm waving over a changing climate is a response to natural threats to the Christian doctrine of everlasting life.
Who knew things wouldn’t get better and better the longer we lived?
Entropy. Energy flows downhill and the universe tends toward chaos. Natural cycles will play out, whether we like it or not.
Yikes, guess some of the dystopian novels about the future being pretty deadly due to atmosperic and environmental damage were written by folks who’d done some research into all those climate models.
No suntime for anyone? Or just mere minutes? Yikes.
Read about how different things once were here on planet Earth and prepare to be stunned:
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2012/07/amazing-facts-about-carboniferous.html
We are tiny players in the magnificent pageant of life that has inhabited this place.