Richard Clark wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:16:41 -0400, "Fred Hambrecht"
wrote:

I still await an explanation of how freon, that is heavier than air, manages
to make it to the South pole and finds the magical propert to climb to the
ionisphere and eat ozone.

Hi Fred,

Hmmm, water is heavier than air. How does it manage? Even clouds are
heavier than air. Rain comes from asteroids, comets, and meteors?
Dust is heavier than air, as is smoke that comes from China and lands
here in Seattle.

They all rise from the same mechanism - sunlight. Heat generates
convection currents. Currents raise pollution that traps heat. More
heat generates more convection currents. More currents raise more
pollution.

Arguably "more" is by slight degrees, but as any capitalist knows,
compound interest is where the money (pollution) is, and most
technicians have had experience with Thermal Runaway.



Another way of looking at it is that Freon is indeed heavier than air.
So is dust, so is salt, so is ice. All these things can reach high into
the atmosphere. We know when spring plowing happens in China, because a
fair amount of dust reaches us. Well, that freon is a lot lighter than
the dust. It can be stirred up by the wind, which is derived from sunlight.

Salt spray can also be measured in the stratosphere, and it is much
much heavier than Freon.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -