[at-l] Climate Change And Regional Influence

[jbkramer@afn.org (Bryan Kramer)]

Your supposition is just anecdotal and devoid of any numeric proof. When
I say proof I mean cold hard numbers not your impressions of looking out
a window.

Bryan

>     *** Though the ozone hole is due to a specific chemical 
> cause, I would 
> consider it a good indicator of the process. It would be mild 
> insanity to 
> think that such a dramatic change of atmospheric input would 
> have no affect. 
> Try living in a dense urban/industrial area sometime to 
> sample mass changes 
> in equilibrium. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that 
> while the earth's 
> environmental regulating systems are being compromised on a 
> broad scale 
> (farms taking woodland space, jets seeding the atmosphere 
> with chemicals, 
> autos, sprawl, power plants, ocean decline, top soil, 
> extinction, etc) that a 
> measurable reaction will take place. The fact that we rely on regular 
> rainfalls now just to break even, and droughts have such a 
> more pronounced 
> effect because the resources are stretched, shows how 
> vulnerable we are. The 
> breaking point is where the long term can no longer bail out 
> the short term 
> in terms of immediate effect.