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Earth's formerly thin ozone layer is recovering
Reuters ^
| August 30, 2006
Posted on 08/30/2006 7:48:40 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Earth's protective ozone layer, which was notably thinning in 1980, may be fully recovered by mid-century, climate scientists said on Wednesday.
Ozone in the stratosphere, outside the polar regions, stopped thinning in 1997, the scientists found after analyzing 25 years worth of observations.
The ozone layer shields the planet from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation, but human-made chemicals -- notably the chlorofluorocarbons found in some refrigerants and aerosol propellants -- depleted this stratospheric ozone, causing the protective layer to get thinner.
The scientists said the ozone layer's comeback is due in large part to compliance with an 1987 international agreement called the Montreal Protocol, which aimed to limit emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airpollution; climatology; earth; ozonelayer; science; theskydidntfall
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To: Clintonfatigued
You realize that a thickening ozone layer is a result of global warming.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:50:12 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: backhoe
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:50:21 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: Clintonfatigued
It wasn't CFC's that were causing the depletion. Some countries still use these even though the U.S. does not. It is something else, perhaps cyclical.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:50:43 PM PDT
by
lmr
("The answers to life don't involve complex solutions." -Del Riley 2006)
To: neodad
OH NO! The ozone layer is going to THICKEN to GROUND LEVEL and KILL US ALL!!!
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:52:04 PM PDT
by
C210N
(Bush SPYED, Terrorists DIED!)
To: Clintonfatigued
Don't tell me...It's Bush's fault.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:54:05 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: Clintonfatigued
Hmmm. The carbon dioxide must be repairing the ozone layer...
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:54:56 PM PDT
by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: Clintonfatigued
How very damn inconvenient for Algore.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:56:59 PM PDT
by
WideGlide
(That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
To: Clintonfatigued
Al Gore, the Earth's former U.S. vice president, is not recovering and he sure isn't thin.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:57:10 PM PDT
by
hometoroost
(TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
To: Clintonfatigued
To: Clintonfatigued
Mr Al Gore please pickup a white courtesy phone!
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:59:45 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Clintonfatigued
Timely thread. ABC's show tonight (just wrapping up) on Earth's Last Days listed as the #1 likely doomsday scenario as - you guessed it - global warming. Algore, of course, was prominently featured lecturing us all in his condescending Algore way.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:59:51 PM PDT
by
Bulldaddy
(www.constructionlawblog.net)
To: neodad
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:59:54 PM PDT
by
NordP
(America: There are more Patriots than Punks!)
To: Clintonfatigued
Fewer volcano eruptions these days?
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:00:21 PM PDT
by
nralife
To: C210N
OH NO! The ozone layer is going to THICKEN to GROUND LEVEL and KILL US ALL!!!
We're Doomed!
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:00:32 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(The easiest way to LIE with statistics is to use the average instead of the Median.)
To: Clintonfatigued
There went one of Hitlery's campaign themes!
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:00:37 PM PDT
by
hardworking
(Give Hitlery a chance so her puppy, Billy, and his playmates, can piddle in the Whitehouse again.)
To: Clintonfatigued
Exactly what did Clintoon do in '97 to reverse this?
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:03:41 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: Clintonfatigued
Does this mean we can go back to spray on anti-prespirant now....since we've been good and all?
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:04:20 PM PDT
by
PistolPaknMama
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
To: Clintonfatigued
This 2001 NASA image depicts the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. Earth's protective ozone layer, which was notably thinning in 1980, may be fully recovered by mid-century, climate scientists said on Wednesday. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - NASA-GSFC/Handout/Reuters)
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:04:23 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
To: quantim
Exactly what did Clintoon do in '97 to reverse this? I'm tellin' the wife! Oral sex saves the ozone layer!
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:16:36 PM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
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