WMO expects 'normal' ozone hole over Antarctica in 2008

AFP ^ | Aug 29, 2008 | Unknown

[decimon]

The shear face of the massive B-15A iceberg after it broke off the Ross Ice Shelf in Antartica in 2001. The World Meteorological Organisation said Friday it expects the ozone hole over Antarctica to be "normal" this year, two years after it reached record size. (AFP/File/Josh Landis)

GENEVA (AFP) - The World Meteorological Organisation said Friday it expects the ozone hole over Antarctica to be "normal" this year, two years after it reached record size.

"Looking at the preliminary data so far, it looks as if the Antarctica ozone hole of 2008 in size and severity will be something in-between the record 2006 and the much weaker one in 2007," WMO ozone expert Geir Braathen told journalists.

"We expect an 'average' or 'normal' ozone hole," he said.

[decimon]

I don't know what the iceberg has to do with the ozone hole but that's a neat picture.

[DBrow]

If the “ozone hole” reached record size in 2006, shouldn’t Algor and the greens been all over it like they were in the ‘70s?

The USA spent considerable effort and money to eliminate freons to “save the planet” from runaway Ozone Holes- it was all for nothing with nobody to benefit but DuPont?

[decimon]

The USA spent considerable effort and money to eliminate freons to “save the planet” from runaway Ozone Holes- it was all for nothing...

That's probably so. CFCs are being phased out but are still used. CFCs are said to have a persistence of many years in the atmosphere. Yet the ozone hole varies larger and smaller and is now at a normal size. This doesn't make sense to me.