Welcome to the Biosphere

Our Biosphere is a wonderfully intricate and dynamic organism, composed of multitudinous interdependent ecosystems and weather systems. Even our upper atmosphere has a dynamic regulatory effect which is absolutely essential to preserving life as we know it on our planet.

At present, our hydroxide layer, located just below the ozone layer, is being ravaged by NOx gases from multitudinous machines, disabling its usual function as a natural reformer of atmospheric methane. Methane is generated on a global basis throughout earth's vibrant ecosystems, and is normally disabled as a greenhouse gas in the hydroxide layer.

Our own impact on this methane generation is minimal, since the methane generated by our livestock is both small compared to nature's total production and would have been generated in other ways from the biomass that the grazing land produces, so it is not a high priority for us to reduce methane. It is essential, however, for us to stop the depletion of the hydroxide layer from man-made emissions such as NOx gases.

NOAA has known about this global mechanism and its tremendous impact for many years, and has published numerous papers on its terrifying progress. It appears that not only is methane (24 times as potent as a greenhouse gas as CO2) accumulating in our atmosphere, but the hydroxide layer is no longer feeding the upper layer with ozone in response to solar radiation. This is perhaps the largest contributor to the ozone holes growth over our planet's poles.