George Soros gave Ivanka's husband's business a $250 million credit line in 2015 per WSJ. Soros is also an investor in Jared's business.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Antarctic ozone hole healing. Memo to Al Gore: Grab the Digitalis.

(Christian Science Monitor): "Just when it looks as though people could breathe a sigh of relief over the hole in stratospheric ozone over Antarctica —
scientists are raising a new ozone-related concern: rocket launches.

That’s right. Rocket launches.

  • The idea is not as wiggy as it may sound. As early as 1974, some scientists had noted that the space shuttle — still a gleam in NASA’s eye at the time — would be a source of chlorine emissions as it climbed through the atmosphere and passed through the stratosphere.

Chlorine-based compounds called chlorflorocarbons have been the main driver behind the loss of ozone in a high-altitude layer of the atmosphere called the stratosphere. They’ve been banned via the 1987 Montreal Protocol, along with other ozone-trashing compounds.

Indeed, some people have argued — wrongly — that the space shuttles have been responsible for the ozone hole....

  • Down the road, however, the picture could change, especially if aerospace-industry launch projections pan out.

The team’s pitch: Don’t wait until then to figure out if this will be an issue. That could lead to a mishmash of regulations that could choke off the launch business. Instead, gather the data now in a rigorous, transparent way so that if emissions regulations are required in the future, they won’t be cobbled together at the last minute with little scientific basis for designing them....

Here, the team argues, the rocket fleet is real, clearly growing, and yet few are taking as serious a look at the environmental effects from rocket emissions — a task that could be accomplished far less cost." (ie "climate" hysteria for profit)

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