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Thread ID: 105643	2009-12-09 17:43:00	Let's Take A Run At What SolMiester Said:	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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838138	2009-12-11 00:54:00	Well Joe I know a lot of money has changed hands especially in Mexico where Millions has been taken off poor souls grasping at straws, but I’ve seen no evidence where “Oxygen Emersion” or related “Oxygen Therapy’s” have been of any use at all. So I again take the side of the sceptics and say it’s a waste of time and money in its present form. :D Now I must admit my position is founded only on High School Science where I seem to remember, in rough figures, we breathe in 20% Oxygen and then go right about breathing out 16%. So I guess it’s a bit like putting extra petrol in the car won’t make it go any faster. ;) However, while on matters of nature, climate etc. I do have an observation I’d like to share with you all. It is well known that we in New Zealand have exceptionally high levels of UV. Ok, we’ve known this for many years and there seems to be compelling evidence, (more than there is for Global Warming) that it is connected to Skin Cancer which includes the deadly Melanoma. Now here’s the crunch. I believe that the UV or some other form of Radiation is getting worse. I arrive at this conclusion on the basis that I am burning far quicker now than I ever did. 30+ Sunblock seems to be of little help which is also a concern. I’ve raised this observation with a number of friends and they are unanimous that they are experiencing the same thing. One friend, of darker complexion, went on to say he used to be able to work making hay, day in and day out, only wearing boots and Boxer Shorts and he only went brown. Now, he says an hour in the sun and his hide is burning off. Then, another observation, I spend close to 6 months of the year in Aus and the Sun there doesn’t bother me. :confused: Sooooo, what are the findings and observations of you good folk out there? My wife states that the sun is no longer friendly. That may be an oversimplification - but it is an observation too. I'm not adversely affected and I could stand all day in the sun and never burn - and I've been that way all my life. I was going to say that as we age, the resiliency of our protective and reparative values drop significantly - but that doesn't hold for me anecdotally that is. She goes outdoors with lathers of sun block and scarves and wide brimmed hats and still burn - even though she's not fair-skinned. Maybe NZ is suffering from a reverse Nevile Schute problem and the northern hemisphere will be the last to be badly affected by the protective values of the ionospheric barrier. I checked out the Farmers' Almanac - which is the old weather bible for farmers here in the US that is still being printed yearly -and I find that sunny days ratio to cloudy are about the same here in the US. Even rainfall over the whole continent is about the same although now it is moving to new venues and not as abundant in some, certain areas like before. There are areas of new droughts, but there are also areas of new flooding and rivers rising where these things have not been naturally occurring in the past century or so. I attribute that somewhat to the shift in general population - although I also feel that any weather and climate changes being rendered so by humans are much like a fly on the back of the proverbial elephant. It is, rather the need for water in obtuse areas for golf courses, housing and yuppified greenbelts where there was an arid desert before and the evaporation of all that surface water modifies the rain and heat uptake into the atmosphere on a local level. Don't misinterpret this - I also believe that the weather pattern shifting is just that these new bounties of water vapor can move a rain to another state or locality because weather always travels west-to-east here in the US. Air quality cannot be ignored either as the darkening of the skies in larger metropolitan areas must have an effect on the heat retention under it and especially when we have inversion layers and trap that latent heat between the clouds and the ground. When I first moved to SoCal in 1961, we had killer fog. The kind where you could not literally see your feet even if you squatted down. They are gone - not even a remnant any more - and that must be from the vast areas of tar and roadways that heat by day and radiate it off at night preventing fog formation. So - there is some change - not globally - but on a more immediate and local scale I feel. If this was a global thing - then I feel that the northern hemisphere would be the heaviest and most impacted and so why and what's with NZ getting the bum's rush and the people suffering from sunstroke and more prevalent melanomas? With the vastness of the ocean as a barrier all around it and the fact that much of the northern-style heavy industrialization doesn't exist in your side of the equator, then what's happening?	SurferJoe46 (51)
838139	2009-12-11 01:01:00	Your dammed aerosols etc. all migrated their Freon residue to our neck of the woods since it is well known that ozone depleters naturally gravitate toward the pinnacle of the universe.	R2x1 (4628)
838140	2009-12-11 01:11:00	It's been years since most of the northern countries use freon to propel anything. That decree came (I think) from the same country that gave Obama his peace prize. It figgers.	SurferJoe46 (51)
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