How come no one ever states that the “Antarctic Ozone Hole” is directly above (MOL) an active volcano, Mt. Erebus?
What the article does not point out, is that the ozone hole is more connected to cold temperatures. There have been recorded ozone hole above Siberia.
They should shoot Al Gore out of a giant cannon into the middle of the Ozone Hole. That would fix it.
The Earth has a couple of ozone bald spots. It’s getting on towards middle age.
So “we’ve” been snookered again.
And your scientific expertise to back that up? Godless-muzzy-commie-hippy scientists doesn’t count.
1) The Ozone hole(s) at both poles existed when we FIRST measured.
2) IF we had no ozone thinning, the earth would have NO SEASONS (e.g. we WOULD be a greenhouse)
3) “Ozone depleting” chemicals are not the issue — Dupont’s expiration of patents on them (and therefore the inability to make money) is at the root of banning certain types of cloroflourocarbons
4) IF freon is causing ozone depletion, it supposedly does this by charged free chlorine gas in the upper atmosphere -— and if that’s so, freon as a source pales in comparison to the billions of metric tons of chlorine we put in water (which, by the way is easier to liberate than the chlorine in freon).
IF you don’t believe me about point #2, let me as you a simple question...
In the northern hemisphere, during winter, the cold, cold wind blows down from the Arctic into Canada, while simultaneously it’s blowing into Siberia. So the wind blows FROM the northern pole DOWN (south) in every direction.....WHERE DOES the wind come from that is blowing SOUTH in every direction????? It comes from the UPPER ATMOSPHERE, enabled by a thinning in our OZONE!!!!
But in the 1990s liberals told me that the ozone "hole" would kill us in 10 years. How can we still exist when it's still there?
The article is pretty round about in saying that the banning of the “Ozone depleting chemicals” has had a dubious effect on the ozone. In fact, it’s jet streams and wind and cold that affect the ozone.
Once again, the environmental Nazis were wrong.
El Nina, El Nino, the hole in the Ozone layer, the most prominent outcome of these three discoveries, was to reveal that to a large extent this is the most anal period in the history of the human species.
As if these things didn’t exist long before man discovered them, and their impact on global dynamics only started after man discovered them.
NASA is just another fully politicized and compromized government agency living off the fumes of its greatness forty years ago. They can’t tell you if it will rain in Kansas City next week, but are dead sure about the state of the upper atmosphere 55 years from now.
The main problem is that scientist determined that the sun has little variation because they measured visible light and total radiance and made their determination for insignificant variation. Thus they ignored solar affects on the ozone concentration even though ozone in the upper atmosphere is created by UV light from the sun. Their determination for insignificant solar change is now proven incorrect. We have since discovered that UV radiance can vary by more then 50 % during a solar cycle. The problem now is that science has become so corrupt with politics, that it lacks the integrity to admit its own faults.
It seems that actually the problem has been completely solved by the media refocussing on a new disaster. How odd.
Let me guess. Is NASA is in need of more government money, so this is how they do it?
Yet, that's exactly how they came to the conclusion that we caused the hole.
I’ll be 165 in 2070.. crankier than heck too.
I seriously doubt anyone can predict much of anything 57 years out when it comes to atmospheric conditions.
but they take their best shot anyway.. and so shall we.
The ozone hole won’t heal EVER because there is NO SUNLIGHT THERE!!!
idiots
I better start spraying my antiperspirant at the sky again.
George Carlin was wrong on a lot of things, but he was right on here....
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles…hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages…And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet…the planet…the planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!
So, like all liberal schemes, the Trillion dollar Freon ban produced nothing but holes in people wallets where money once was. The sad thing is that the “wise leaders” in our scientwistic society are the ones making Genetic modification “improvements” to nature.
I would not trust them with a drivers license. Instead they are remodeling the food chain for the entire planet. Gives me indigestion just thinking about it.