[From: http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/earth/waton/lies.html and: http://science.rolf-witzsche.com/2v40/2v40-027.html ]

THE OZONE LIE

The ozone layer is recharged by the sun, and this is why it is thinnest at the sun-starved antarctic

The hole in the ozone layer has more to do with politics than deodorants, a respected French scientist told reporters recently. Outspoken Haroun Tazieff claims that the disintegration of the ozone layer by the infamous CFC gases "Is a complete lie," he told me categorically, when we met in Paris recently. "The ozone hole is a natural hole which appears above the Antarctic at the beginning of October and has disappeared by the end of December. In Europe, I think I'm the only person to refute it, and I have never been officially contradicted, neither by ecologists nor by scientists."

The ozone layer is recharged by the sun, and this is why it is thinnest at the sun-starved antarctic . Tazieff believes that these dramatic images have been used to hoodwink the public. He believes that the hole is due to the low levels of ultraviolet rays (which are what produces ozone) over the Antarctic at the end of the year, and that the large and swift movements of air masses around the continent also play their part. On September 5, 1987, there was a relatively large reduction of 0.1 per cent in the levels of ozone over a surface of three million square kilometres near the Palmer peninsula in the Antarctic. Tazieff points out there is no way that the CFCs could have broken down so much ozone in such a short space of time.

CFCs could not have the least significant effect, he has made clear. After all, it is known that it is the chlorine in the CFCs which breaks down ozone molecules in the lower atmosphere (not in the ozone layer, which is much higher). However, only 7,500 tons of chlorine are released from the breakdown of CFCs every year, against 600 million tons from the evaporation of seawater and 36 million from volcanoes. What is more, the effect is ecologically "healthy": chlorine breaks down the ozone into oxygen, and once the sun's ultraviolet rays are exposed to it, the oxygen is transformed back into ozone.

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The ozone layer is not even in danger from CFCs. They have never been proven to exist in the stratosphere, and would be outnumbered by natural sources of fluorine and chlorine at a ratio of 100,000 to one! (Natural sources of chlorine from seawater and volcanos etc., release 649,000,000 tons of chlorine annually, compared to the maximum release theorized from breakup of CFCs of 7,500 tons per annual production.

It occurred to me that it was rather strange that these ozone holes formed primarily over the Arctic, far away from any industrial and population centers where the CFCs are manufactured and used. Have you ever wondered why these so-called ozone holes aren't over the big industrial centers, if the CFCs kill the ozone? Have you ever wondered why the holes in the Arctic were conveniently measured in the winter when the natural ozone generation is at its seasonal lowest, and only during the years of high volcanic activity there?

Large chemical companies wanted to keep their monopoly on the market. After half a century of being protected by patents, CFCs were on the point of falling into the public domain. To keep the whole of the pie themselves, what better way than to have them banned, requiring the use of a replacement gas, which is difficult to produce and thus remains exclusive to large companies which possess the technical know-how."

Yves Cochet, spokesman for the French ecology party, Les Verts, admits: "nothing has been proved" regarding the effect of CFC gasses on the ozone layer. He adds: "We are obliged to talk of an ozone hole in the media, because then people get a very visual impression, but of course, it is much more diffuse than that." At 80, Tazieff remains as clear-thinking as ever. He argues that many of France's leading ecologists have no scientific background. A former boxer, he trained first as an agronomist and then as a geologist, which led to a lifetime study of volcanoes.

One of the founding fathers of the French ecological movement and a former minister for the prevention of major natural and technological risks, Tazieff is well qualified to talk about environmental issues. He has been adviser to most of France's environment ministers over the past decade. Despite this he asserts that Green parties are running a "campaign of deliberate, untruthful scaremongering," and the imaginary problems they espouse have led to millions of pounds being directed towards "environmental windmills" rather than the real threats of pollution. It seemed strange to Tazieff that an ozone hole situated above the Antarctic was blamed on CFC gases, when most deodorants were sprayed in the northern hemisphere.

He was surprised to discover an article in the 1950 Annals of Geophysics reporting the existence of ozone holes above Norway in 1926 - years before CFC's were even dreamt of - and was astounded to find that the hole above the Antarctic was not the recent phenomenon ecologists claimed it to be. It was actually discovered as far back as 1957, he says, by the English scientist, Gordon Dobson, but it was only in the mid-eighties that satellite photos began to highlight it in a rather spectacular way.

UNEP, the United Nations Environmental Programme, has used this issue to lobby governments around the globe, and particularly the United States, to underwrite its budget to the tune of several billions of dollars. Additionally, this initiative has required the abandonment of tried-and-true refrigerants in favor of expensive experimentation with "refrigerants" which are ineffective, damaging to equipment, and excessively costly. This has the effect of inflicting poverty and starvation on poorer nations which have to maintain food stocks in climates demanding refrigeration. With the "illegality" of their old-fashioned regrigeration units, the UNEP is effectively mandating hardship and increased poverty in third-world countries. Wherever people are screaming inexplicably over an unprovable issue, you will eventually find "money" at the back of it, and in the most vile of manifestations.


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[Addendum to Ozone info: Mexican scientist: Molina, as in "Molina and Rowland, 1974" ]

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[Excerpts From: http://members.tripod.com/american_almanac/cfc.htm ]

The Holes in the Ozone Hole -- The Scientific Evidence That The Sky Isn't Falling
Printed in the American Almanac, January, 1994

F. Sherwood Rowland, Mario Molina, and Paul Crutzen--the so-called scientists who invented the ozone depletion theory--are quacks, whose discovery has been proven to be a scientific fraud, New Federalist reported when the trio was awared this year's Nobel Prize early in October. What follows are excerpts from the authoritative refutation of the ozone depletion hoax, The Holes in the Ozone Hole: The Scientific Evidence That the Sky Isn't Falling, by researchers Rogelio A. Maduro and Ralf Schauerhammer of 21st Century Science Associates, published in 1992. The excerpts are taken from the book's Chapter 2, titled ``The Ozone Wars.''

Molina knew nothing about the stratosphere or stratospheric chemistry; his expertise was in chemical lasers. For that matter, neither did Rowland, who had graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a major in chemistry and a minor in journalism. After doing calculations on paper for several days, Molina came to Rowland with a new doomsday theory. He told Rowland that when CFCs rose to the stratosphere, they would be split apart by ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, releasing chlorine. The next step, said Molina, was a catalytic chain reaction in which the chlorine molecules would destroy hundreds of thousands of ozone molecules. His conclusion was that between 20 and 40 percent of the ozone layer would be destroyed. After poring over the calculations, Rowland called Harold Johnston at the University of California at Berkeley. Johnston, was already an initiate of the ozone depletion priesthood. Johnston told Rowland there was nothing new about the chlorine chain doomsday theory...

The Ozone Wars included mass media propaganda campaigns to convince the public and America's law-makers of the following unproven theories:

  1. That the ozone layer would be depleted by the operation in the stratosphere or mesosphere of supersonic aircraft that exhaust water. When that theory was disproven, nitrogen oxides (NOx) replaced water as the ozone destroyers.

  2. That the detonation of nuclear devices whose debris clouds can produce or carry NOx into the stratosphere or mesosphere will deplete the ozone layer.

  3. That the ozone layer would also be depleted by the stimulation of N2O production by addition of fixed nitrogen to the biosphere whether through nitrogen fertilizers, animal wastes, combustion-produced NOx, expanded growth of legumes, infection of nonleguminous plants with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, or by green mulching.

  4. That the Space Shuttle would deplete the ozone layer through the release of chlorine from its rocket boosters.

  5. That the ozone layer would be depleted by the atmospheric release of stable chlorine-containing compounds such as chlorocarbons in general and chlorofluorcarbons (CFCs) in particular, which can penetrate the stratosphere before decomposing.

  6. That the ozone layer would be wiped out by the atmospheric release of stable bromine-containing compounds like CH3Br, now used as a soil fumigant, which can allegedly penetrate the stratosphere before decomposing. The same claim was made in regard to brominated chlorocarbons, known as halons, used in fire-fighting equipment.

  7. That the ozone layer would also be depleted by the stimulation of N2O production by denitrifying bacteria through increased acidity of precipitation from atmospheric release of oxides of sulfur and nitrogen. This theory claimed that the famous ``acid rain'' in the northern part of the United States would destroy the ozone layer indirectly, through bacteria in the soils....

If several--and in some cases only one--of these claims were true, the atmosphere's ozone layer would have been destroyed several times over by today. Yet, as we shall see in the chapters to come, there is no scientific evidence of any ozone depletion.

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