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To: Moominoid who wrote (7135)	8/14/2001 11:46:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74559

David, ozone is formed by incident sunlight on O2 up in the ozone zone. In winter, there is not much sunlight so the ozone hole grows, which plants really love because they get some ultraviolet light, which they need to stay alive and keep their chlorophyll working. As summer comes on, the ozone hole shrinks due to ozone formation due to much more sunlight in the ozone zone. Plants like that shrinkage too, because that stops them being fried by uv! The ozone protects them. So, humans have created a really good method of enhancing plant growth by producing CFCs. In winter plants get more light, so maintain growth a little bit. In summer, they are protected by ozone. I haven't seen any suffering plants due to too much ultraviolet light. They seem to grow as tall as they can and crowd out other plants in an attempt to increase their share of sunlight at the expense of shorter plants. They also struggle to breathe in the weak CO2 atmosphere from which nearly all the carbon has been stripped and deposited as fossil hydrocarbons in coal, oil, tars and gas. People are now recycling those hydrocarbons back into the biosphere. For some weird reason, people who claim to be Greens, or environmentally aware, think oil should stay in the ground and we should ride bicycles [or walk]. Greens should understand that their name "Greens" derives from chlorophyll. Chlorophyll loves carbon dioxide, which is not a poison, it is food! It shows how ignorant Greens are. They are really just religious wackoes. They claim to love Gaia, then kick her in the teeth by refusing to raise back to life the carbon which sank to the ocean floor due to fish and other marine fauna dying and sinking, being buried and subducted. People, in the Gaia plan, are here to recycle that life and the Greens are refusing to do their bit for Gaia and the carbon cycle. We need more carbon cycle and less steel bicycle. People are a miracle on earth! We are now literally able to roll back ice ages! Plants used to do that, but it took them a longggggg time. They did that by gradually reforesting deserts after an ice age encroached - the deserts would get wet due to the lowered temperatures. It would take a long time for that to happen, so the ice ages lasted for 100s of thousands of years and interglacials much shorter times [like 10,000 years]. Ice ages arrive overnight, almost literally, with big snowfalls reflecting sun and suffocating plants. We can also roll back financial collapses! Alan Green$pan is in the process of doing that now, having reduced the irrationally exuberant back to the daily grind, which is boring but more productive than millions of SWS [sudden wealth syndrome] people sitting around guzzling champagne. Will all plants be pleased that ozone is increasing? No!! Only the tall and green will survive as the ultraviolet light reduces. Crop production will fall. People will go hungry [okay, maybe they won't and they'll just have to plant a few more hectares - but it makes a good story]. With more ozone, less ultraviolet light, less CO2 and hungry plants, Gaia will look sadly on the works of man, declare man a failure and revert to an eons-long ice-age slumber. People will reap what we have sown = a longggg, cold ice-age in Punxsutawney, northern and southern latitudes kilometres deep in ice. It will be 6 am under 1000 metres of ice and snow for thousands of years in the northern USA and northern Europe. Groundhog Day, the movie, here: groundhogsday.com Mqurice