Ozone Hole or Global Warming?
Environmentalists really confuse me. Twenty years ago they were complaining about the Ozone Hole and how we need to make sure that we don’t allow the hole grow any bigger. Now they are saying that more ozone is leading to more Global Warming!
Ozone in the troposphere — the lowest level of the atmosphere — damages plants and affects their ability to absorb carbon dioxide, another global warming gas whose release into the atmosphere accelerates climate change, the researchers wrote in the journal Nature.
While carbon dioxide is blamed for global warming, it also has a beneficial effect on plant growth, and ozone counteracts this effect, said Stephen Sitch, a climate researcher at Britain’s Met Office, which deals with meteorology.
Now, what problem are the environmentalist going to pick to solve, the ozone hole or global warming? And, just to clarify, the solution cannot involve killing every human on the planet (minus those godly environmentalists of course). Now I believe that that global warming is a naturally occurring event and there have been times in the past where the earth has been a lot warmer than it is now (see DNA reveals Greenland’s lush past) so this present warming trend is nothing to worry about. Sure things will have to change, but don’t things always have to change in a non-static world?
