Filing fails to consider ozone layer, global warming in cost-benefit for O'Hare
Pat Neuman | 07.03.2005 01:45 | G8 2005 | Analysis
A filing last week with the Federal Aviation Administration on a plan to expand Chicago's O'Hare airport shows a cost-benefit ratio as justified, even under adverse scenarios [Paul Merrion, Crain's Chicago Business, 15 Feb. 2005].
However, the filing failed to account for more damage to the ozone layer and more global warming from increases in airline transportation and costly emissions.
See also:
Airline emissions linked to hole in ozone layer and global warming,
at:
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/53843/index.php
Pat Neuman
United States
See also:
Airline emissions linked to hole in ozone layer and global warming,
at:
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/53843/index.php Pat Neuman
United States
Pat Neuman
Homepage:
http://profiles.yahoo.com/patneuman2000
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Did the consensus overlook or underestimate damage from ozone loss?
07.03.2005 02:52
Graph of annual global land air temperatures by 10 yr moving averages
Did the consensus of climate scientists overlook or underestimate the most serious
damage to occur with global warming? (increasing depletion of the ozone layer as
the stratosphere becomes colder and colder)
Excerpt from a post I made earlier today
A depleted ozone layer may have contributed to extinctions in Earth's history.
Non-anthropogenic gases may have been sufficient under extremely cold
stratospheric conditions to deplete the ozone layer and cause the extinctions
that took place during global warming episodes in Earth's past (late Permian
extinction of 245 mya, Cenomanian/Turonian of 95 mya, Paleocene/Eocene of 55
mya). A depleted ozone layer 55 mya could explain the great loss of marine
species at the Paleocene/Eocene, from a loss of plankton due to high ultraviolet
radiation.
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