Unusual Arctic cold raises fears for ozone hole

New Scientist ^ | 28 January 2005 | Shaoni Bhattacharya

[lafroste]

There are so many inconsistencies, contradictions, false assumptions, and outright lies contained in this piece that I hardly know where to start.

The enviro-nuts are becoming truely psychotic in their pronouncements of disaster. Notice the new boogey-man trial balloon "arctic clouds" malformed clouds so cold that they give rise to accelerated destructive chemical reactions turning benign atmospheric chlorine into ozone destructive arctic chlorine (who comes up with this stuff?).

I thought the purpose of the ozone layer was to protect us from solar UV radiation, if there is sunlight, what function does it serve? Further, ozone is constantly being replenished and destroyed, much faster than any of these models seem to predict.

Finally, the part that originally caught my attention "coldest winter in 50 years" was not blamed on global warming, a cause du jour suspiciously absent in this article.

[2banana]

Temperatures in the Arctic ozone layer are now the coldest for 50 years and have been consistently low for two months.

So do we need some global warming to save ourselves from the hole in the ozone layer...?

[pabianice]

Make up your freaking mind!!

[Thermalseeker]

As I look out my window here in Eastern Tennessee and see the trees all weighted down with ice I find myself wishing for some "global warming"........

[rellimpank]

---gasp-shudder---here I thought getting rid of the fluorocarbons solved the problem--

---oh, no that was in the southern hemisphere-woe is me---!!!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Global Warming is the ultimate unfalsifiable hypothesis. All observations confirm its truth. Further it is conflated with any and all natural or human phenomena: tsunami, earthquake, ozone hole, sunspots, obliquity of the ecliptic, the equation of time, the price of beer...

[Piquaboy]

Everyone knows that President Bush is the cause of everything, no matter what it is.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I always wondered why those Norskies were so dingy.

[Enterprise]

Just wait. When it becomes obvious that it is getting colder, the enviro-wackos will demand that the Government step up the production and release of fluorocarbons to help warm the atmosphere.

[TomGuy]

Wasn't there another article just a couple of weeks ago complaining about the Arctic being warmer than it has been in decades, and the ice was melting and polar bears were becoming endangered?

There are so many conflicting reports.

Of course, most 'scientists' and related organizations need to publish reports to keep their funding.

[sweetliberty]

D*mn global warming.

[xp38]

Nah...what you really want is some serious local warming.

[Enterprise]

"tsunami, earthquake, ozone hole, sunspots, obliquity of the ecliptic, the equation of time, the price of beer..."

My favorite is cow or sheep flatulence!

[rellimpank]

---maybe we can smuggle them in from the nearest third-world country--

[neutrality]

Ozone depletion isn't really related to global warming (which you probably knew). Here's what NASA has to say http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Ozone/ozone.html

[Moose4]

WEEEESA GONNA DIIIIIEE!!

}:-)4

[Forgiven_Sinner]

"although ozone can naturally replenish itself.'

The one truthful and salient fact in the article. No matter how big the ozone hole gets, the more UV that comes through, the more ozone produced.

It's a self-correcting problem.

I won't even point out that the "man-made chemicals" aren't proven to cause all of the hole.

[MEG33]

http://diplomadic.blogspot.com/
Rolicking good fun on the UN/global warming scam...and the UN took credit for everything the USAID and others did in the weeks following the tsunami...They HAVE NO SHAME.

[kennedy]

Whenever it is warmer than average, it is proof positive of global warming. Whenever it is colder than average it is also proof positive of global warming.

[Ditter]

Can we have global cooling now? Can we huh? Can we please? Please? You promised back in the 70's! I was sooooo looking forward to it.