Recent content by Eacaraxe_v1legacy

Oh geez, Let's go back to basics: contaminants released as a direct consequence of the Chernobyl accident can be identified in three "waves": as a result of the explosion, as a result of the graphite fire, and as a result of residual heat and steam after the graphite fire was put out. They're...

Now, you're putting words in my mouth. I said, CFC reduction was going to happen anyway because the market for those substances was doomed to failure, I never said when. If I had to bet based on demand and production of HCFC's and HFC's through the '90s, it probably would have taken 5-7 years...

The determinant apparently being "is it conducive to my argument", not "is it consistent with the laws of physics". Again, > It takes decades for the effects of reduced ODS emissions to be seen, because the process is all so very, very complicated. > A period of lower production, emission...

No, just powerful enough to launch particulate matter to altitudes with substantially lower air pressure, and slightly reduced gravity (nobody ever seems to take note of that), in seconds. As compared to what you were trying to compare it to, gaseous emissions from industrial activity that take...

Better compared to escape velocity, not at escape velocity. Because you don't seem entirely cognizant of the sheer forces involved in that explosion; the explosion may not have been a "nuclear explosion" as traditionally understood (a controlled prompt-criticality incident), but it still...

250 acres of forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone caught fire [https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/forest-fire-chernobyl-boosts-radiation-level-69983859]. Because at this point, fuck it, why not.

What the Swedes detected on 28 April was ejecta from the explosion itself. Why they thought it originated from an incident at one of their own reactors, was because they detected short-lived fission byproducts (Xe-135 if I remember right) that could not have originated from the Soviet Union (or...

> It takes decades for atmospheric concentrations of CFC's to deplete, which is why it took twenty years for the MP to have an effect. > If it were about the energy crisis, it would have had an immediate effect starting in the '70s. Pick one. Once again, CFC's don't teleport. They take...

Yes, that's my entire point. CFC's and HCFC's don't just manifest from the luminiferous aether; they come from somewhere, meaning they are produced. Ergo, one must look at production over time, to see how that tracks against atmospheric concentrations of those same chemicals. Tracking ozone...

Note I said "1964-1980". I did so for a reason, because the next, logical question is "what about 1980-1989?". Or, more to the point, "what about 1964-1989?". Source: EEC. Source: ESA. You might ask yourself, "what happened between 1973-1985?". But more to the point...

The entire reason there's even heavier pressure on Bernie to drop out than before, is because the Democratic party has systemically shit the bed on each and every salient issue of the past ten years in one election cycle alone, and as long as Bernie's in they can't bait-and-switch out Biden for...

I'ma go ahead, stop you here, and point out the article you cited has a number of unsubstantiated, and unsubstantiatable, assumptions: 1. Its contrast is against an hypothetical "no other action" model which assumes anthropogenic ozone depletion would not only have continued, but continued...

Advisors are never without agendas of their own, and in the end the responsibility of separating wheat from chaff and deciding the course of action falls to the executive who still must have good judgment to effect good policy. Take for example the lesson of the Bay of Pigs. Eisenhower's...

Was my writing in any conceivable way ambiguous? Comparative petroleum scarcity and cost during the energy crisis contributed to the continued proliferation and use of ozone-depleting chemicals less-reliant on petroleum-based precursors, and when that scarcity was alleviated by the end of the...

I'd have pointed to the prohibition of leaded gasoline and DDT, but hey, your argument, your rules. Ironic you didn't immediately jump to these two as what would be the definitive case examples of your own point, while going straight to the ozone layer. You might do well for yourself to ask what...