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To: one_less who wrote (4902)11/16/2006 4:40:02 PM
From: Jim S  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10087
 
How come we don't worry about the "ozone holes" any more?

Is it because we went from $0.99 per pound freon to $8.00 per pound coolants? The ozone heads got a law passed, so now the problem is solved? I thought it was something that would destroy humanity and would take almost forever to cure?

Would the same solution work for GW?



To: one_less who wrote (4902)11/16/2006 4:55:21 PM
From: mistermj  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 10087
 
In other words if you don't cave into our agenda...we are going to hold our breath, stamp our little feet, and turn blue until you do.

Unbelievable.

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The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who first made the proposal is himself "not enthusiastic about it."

"It was meant to startle the policy makers," said Paul J. Crutzen, of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. "If they don't take action much more strongly than they have in the past, then in the end we have to do experiments like this."