U.N. climate agency says "Don't panic!" as ozone hole gets wider

Reuters on Yahoo News ^ | 10/28/15 | Tom Miles

[NormsRevenge]

ENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N.'s weather and climate agency said on Thursday there was no cause for alarm about a record-size hole this month in the ozone layer, that shields life on earth from the sun, as it should shrink again.

The ozone hole that appears over Antarctica fluctuates in size, normally reaching its widest in the polar spring as extreme cold temperatures in the stratosphere and the return of sunlight unleash chlorine radicals that destroy ozone.

Last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said it detected the first sign of ozone recovery, largely thanks to a 1987 ban on gases that cause ozone depletion, but said it could be a decade before the hole begins shrinking.

This year, a colder than usual stratosphere widened the hole to a peak of 28.2 million square km (10.9 million square miles) on Oct. 2, bigger than Canada and Russia put together.

It was a record for a hole recorded on Oct. 2 of any year, and the hole has remained at daily record levels on every day since then, the WMO said, citing data from NASA. Over the 30 days around the peak, the hole averaged 26.9 million square km, making it the third largest, after 2000 and 2006.

[NormsRevenge]

Do Not Panic, Amurrica! You have ObammyCare!!

[armydawg505]

I have my seatbelt on to keep me from bouncing off the walls with worry.

[butlerweave]

just more build up bull for the Paris Party

[BipolarBob]

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!

[OL Hickory]

We 80’s kids remember that the OZONE was created by aqua-net hair spray and cow farts

[Steely Tom]

While Obama was focused on causing the seven seas to subside, he stopped paying attention to the hole in the sky.

[OL Hickory]

We 80’s kids remember that the OZONE HOLE was created by aqua-net hair spray and cow farts

[Repeal The 17th]

Certain crony chemical companies made tons of money
reformulating air conditioner coolants
because of this imaginry hobgoblin.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~H. L. Mencken

[Chode]

This year, a colder than usual stratosphere widened the hole to a peak of 28.2 million square km (10.9 million square miles) on Oct. 2

damn that globull warming...

[Fungi]

This again? What crap. The ozone hole has gotten wider and wider since the 70s and before, another red herring to throw at the populace to force them into submission. You would think all the ozone would have disappeared by now as consistent with their calculations, as is the arctic and Antarctic ice, the glaciers, the plankton, the whales, the polar bears, and on and on ad infinitum. What pure unadulterated crap.

[cradle of freedom]

I know, I thought that we were through with that threat to humanity by banning our hairspray! :^)

[ClearCase_guy]

I say we plug the hole with lots of CO₂

[SteveinSATX]

yep...good times

[kaehurowing]

And now, from the SyFy Channel:

Sharktozone!

[WENDLE]

This all patent bull $hit.

[Mastador1]

We 80’s kids remember that the OZONE was created by aqua-net hair spray and cow farts

And don't forget that that nasty R-12 phased out 25 years ago is still blamed for the damn ozone hole, then they went after R-22, which just happens to be the gas for residential and commercial AC, so once again someone can make huge profit off of BS science. Oh. and by the way don't get to attached too your 134a systems in your cars either.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“The Ozone Hole” (reverb off/) Part Deux. Just in time for Halloween. The ‘RATS can always come up with some scary stuff to scare the “slow” among us.

[sheik yerbouty]

O the inanity!

[dsrtsage]

Quick, ban CFC’s conveniently at the same time the patent runs out on them.

[Phillyred]

Yep. I Remember the same hysteria then about the ozone and acid rain! I remember instinctively knowing as a third grader that it was all a bunch of scare mongering bs too.