Flippin polarities and the ozone hole
Now, my biggest problem in life, but something that gives me great amusement and mental stimulation, is I just don’t take anything hardly as black and white when it comes to the big pictures. If I’m told something, I just store it. If it later is contradicted and just left taken for granted, I have issues with it. That’s the main reason I blog in sciences, I’d like to get some answers to those contradictions. The hole in the ozone layer panic of the 70’s and 80’s is one of those contradictions that are just left taken for granted that science is absolute in its knowledge and we should all jump when they change their minds without questioning the ramifications.
Some background here I would assume is in order.
SImply for illustrating what I am referring to, I reference theozonehole.com. These peeps are dedicated to preserving life as we know it on Earth by assuring people are aware of the dangers of destroying the ozone layer by using chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons. Starting in the late 1970’s, we started learning about the ozone layer and how man’s use of CFC’s was destroying it so rapidly that life would end as we knew it pretty much right about now. The entire ozone would be gone within thirty years and we would all die of UV exposure. So, some countries decided they didn’t want to die of skin cancer and banned most CFCs ( most didn’t ). Before too long, things seemed to level off if you watched things like satellite images. However, according to those who study such things, the picture was not so rosy:
They come to this conclusion by assuming the Dobson units were substantially higher before they started recording it scientifically. According to this assumption, we’re still in trouble. And, given the fact we’ve supposedly banned most CFC’s, the fact the ozone hole is still much, much larger than it was pre-1975, we’re gonna die anyway.
But, what they have never addressed, that I am aware of, is the effect of some things on the ozone layer itself. Now, they have addressed things like solar flares blowing away some of it occasionally. But, what if there was a much more regular mundane affector on the ozone layer?
This is where this post jumps the shark, if you will:
In simpler terms, they are using magnetism to affect gases. By applying a heavy dose of magnetism it breaks the atomic bonds that hold those gases together. They then turn into something else.
Who’s to say the magnetic poles of the Earth don’t do the same thing? Has anyone researched that possibility? If so, then the news of this week means something a lot bigger than it’s been given credit so far:
That is an interesting article, you need to read it all. The underlying assumption is made that the Earh’s magnetic core is not stable, but fluid. In the past, about 750,000 years ago, it flipped polarities due to this fluidity. They’re not sure why it flipped tho. But, I’ve not seen where the comparison of Earth’s climate has been compared to the events of the flipping magnetic field of circa 750,000 BC. The reason I ask this is because I had always been led to believe that the flipping was somewhat instantly in time. However, what if it was over decades, if not centuries? What would the climate have experienced during that flip?
The ozone hole, coincidentally or not, hangs over the positive pole of the Earth. Now, adding the two theories together, you get a “coincedence” ( or not ), that as the magnetic field has weakened over the last decade, the ozone hole has shrunk. Simultaneously, the climate at the Antarctic has warmed. Some theorists conclude that the shrinking ozone hole is the primary culprit to this warming. The assumption that the “flip” is preceded by a weakening magnetic field means that over a period of time, if these two theories are connected at all, is that the polar caps would warm. That is what’s happening right now. Then, over a period of time, as the Earth’s core continues to slow down and the magnetic field weakens even more, then the Earth over-all will start to warm up as the ozone layer allows UV rays to enter farther into our stratosphere. That is what’s happening right now. Weird huh?
Then, over time, the core will slow down and the magnetic field will do it’s flip and the Earth will get warmer. Then as the core speeds back up, the magnetic fields will increase, causing larger ozone holes over the North Pole, and a thinner ozone layer world-wide. This would cause a cooling Earth climate and lead to the next ice age.
Simple huh?
And all Livescience was concerned with was the affect on communications satellites.
And Al Gore thinks carbon credits will stop all that.
