"Big Bill" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:38:37 GMT, "James Sweet"
wrote:



Actually, it *is* in dispute.
While we can *model* such, that doesn't mean it's happening the way
the model says it *can* happen.
And it's also in *much* dispute that the holes are anything other than
a natural thing hat we've never noticed before simply because we
havn't been monitoring the ozone levels for very long.

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Ok so it's possible that freon doesn't affect the ozone layer, on the
other
hand it's possible that it does. There's suitable substitutes so why
chance
it? It's possible that excessive UV has nothing to do with skin cancer,
or
that smoking has nothing to do with lung cancer, or that living off
nothing
but fast food won't make you unhealthy, but there's quite a bit of
evidence
to the contrary, why chance it?

I truly wish it were as simple as that.
Remember the "Global Warming" thing? The responce to that is to
disrupt our economy in a *hope* that the Kyoto agreement might slow it
down. Yet, we do not know what caused prior instances of global
warming that we had no hand in. The problem is that we have some
people who want to institute very drastic measures to alter things
when we have little to no understanding of what's actually happening.
Freon is only a small part of this.

I for one am *very* glad that scientists and governments aren't sitting on
their hands with a wait an see attitude. Lack of foresight has caused more
that one disaster in the past.
me