The controversy about global warming reminds me of the troubles with the ozone layer, about 30 years ago. Of course, a number of people and countries were in denial back then, too. Until we changed things on a global scale (all UN nations) and it worked (the hole is much smaller).
A two-digit IQ (especially without a scientific education) is an awful thing (for the respective 50% of the population, and for those who have to deal with their stupidity). Unfortunately they can vote, and not only about climate change.
Actually, your lack of understanding of the "ozone layer" scare proves your ignorance on this subject. The "scientists" misunderstand the ozone layer back then and blamed it SOLEY on CFCs whereby the media made a HUGE SCARE about everyone dying over UV radiation. Turns out, it was FAR MORE complicated than that.
Quote from article:
" These days, scientists understand a lot more about the ozone hole. They know that it’s a seasonal phenomenon that forms during Antarctica’s spring, when weather heats up and reactions between CFCs and ozone increase. As weather cools during Antarctic winter, the hole gradually recovers until next year. And the Antarctic ozone hole isn’t alone. A “mini-hole” was spotted over Tibet in 2003, and in 2005 scientists confirmed thinning over the Arctic so drastic it could be considered a hole.
Each year during ozone hole season, scientists from around the world track the depletion of the ozone above Antarctica using balloons, satellites and computer models. They have found that the ozone hole is actually getting smaller: Scientists estimate that if the Montreal Protocol had never been implemented, the hole would have grown by 40 percent by 2013. Instead, the hole is expected to completely heal by 2050."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ozone-hole-was-super-scary-what-happened-it-180957775/
NOTE: This article is written by a magazine that PUSHES the global warming hoax where they had to admit their knowledge of the Ozone layer was quite insufficient.
Here is a far less "favorable" article concerning the issue:
http://www.therebel.media/there_never_was_a_hole_in_the_ozone
Of note: "Ozone is created in the upper atmosphere when ultraviolet (UV) radiation, a small part of the total electromagnetic energy from the sun, strikes free oxygen molecules (O2). The molecules are split into single oxygen molecules (O), which combine with other O2 to create ozone (O3) -- a process called photo disassociation.
The ozone layer varies considerably in different regions, at different altitudes, and over time. The so-called "hole" is a region located over Antarctica in which the ozone level is lowest during the Southern Hemisphere winter. Even then, the thickness is still one-third of the global average. It is an area of "thinning" due to natural causes.
Formation of ozone occurs between 15 and 55 km above the surface with the maximum concentration between 15 and 30 km. Densities vary horizontally and vertically, so levels over any region change hourly with air movement.
The ozone layer is self-healing because as UV penetrates further into the atmosphere, it encounters more free oxygen (O2). By 15 km above the surface, over 95% of the UV has been expended in the creation of ozone.
Measurements of ozone by the British Antarctic survey team determined levels were lower than measures taken in 1957.
James Lovelock, the British scientist who proposed the Gaia hypothesis, warned against overreaction, but was ignored.
The hysteria began with the environmentalist hypothesis that CFCs were destroying ozone in the stratosphere. Molina and Rowland,
who later received a Nobel Prize for their work, published results of laboratory studies showing that CFCs destroyed ozone. They didn’t simulate atmospheric conditions in the ozone layer, but that didn’t matter. Ideology took over, and they determined to prove rather than disprove the hypothesis as proper science requires.
From the beginning it was assumed, incorrectly, that the level of UV is constant, a point I made to the Parliamentary Committee. If UV radiation creates ozone and is then considered constant, you are forced to assume another cause for variation. This parallels the effective exclusion of the sun as a major cause of global warming or climate change.
A major cause of changes in the size and extent of the Antarctic ozone hole are the intense wind patterns and circulations associated with the extensive Antarctic high-pressure zone and the surrounding wind pattern known as the Circumpolar Vortex."
The only difference this time is the Global Warming SCAM is BIG MONEY compared to the Ozone one, which was just a misunderstanding.
