South Pole’s ozone hole shrinks to smallest since discovery

Business Mirror ^ | Oct 28, 2019

[11th_VA]

So it’s gonna be a cold winter ? Global warming is over ???

[2111USMC]

I just saw a woolly caterpillar with really thick wool.

I think that means another brutal winter (like last year).

[rktman]

Thanks be to re-greta-bull.

[reed13k]

Outside of the weather don’t forget there is limited sunspot activity currently so less solar wind.

[reed13k]

I always thought it depended on which color band was larger.

[faithhopecharity]

It’s Trump’s fault! Impeach!!!!!

[seowulf]

It’s just a fluke of the weather

Of course it is.

Why couldn’t it been a fluke of the weather that caused the ozone hole?

[dsc]

What a good thing it is that we panicked and spent, what, trillions of dollars eliminating chlorofluorocarbons. All that money and effort, for nothing.

[Jeff Chandler]

OZONE HOLE CRISIS!!!!!

Time to ban current refrigerants and mandate new, expensive refrigerants.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Oops.

[Grimmy]

Give me a big enough grant to hire a compliant “scientist” and I can do a study that proves the hole in the ozone is how carbon escapes from the atmosphere into space.

And that closing the ozone hole dooms us all to heat death.

[Amendment10]

"So it’s gonna be a cold winter ? Global warming is over ???"

Great point!

[motor_racer]

Since the shrinkage was predicted by no one, why should anyone believe predictions of expansion?

[faithhopecharity]

The lefties did that already. People have to buy their air conditioner recharging stuff from interne at astronomical prices t What they will to do now is Impeach Trump. And - https://desertpeace.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/6a00d83451bab869e200e54f2499908834-800wi.jpg

[11th_VA]

What’s interesting is, they are admitting that ‘Arctic Weather’ has a macro effect on the hole size, and implies, chlorofluorocarbons have a micro effect on hole size.

[palmer]

...but man-made chlorine compounds that can last in the air for 100 years nibble at the ozone...

BS. The CFCs that last 40-50 years average in the atmosphere are inert and do not nibble at anything. When they reach the upper stratosphere, after their possible decades of inert life, a percentage is broken down by ultraviolet. The free chlorine can then nibble at ozone for a 2-3 years until it falls back down to earth. It's absolutely no different from natural chlorine from volcanic eruptions. The worst case for eruptions is about a decade.

Granted there is an added chlorine load due to CFCs. But the longer the lifetime for the CFCs, the smaller added chlorine load is. Also the lack of ozone loss this year just like 2002, shows that weather is a big controlling factor.

[dp0622]

As long as it wasn’t him that told you that :)

[mountainlion]

It seems like the patents for R12 had run out anyone could have produced them.

[dp0622]

I think i’ll take my gas guzzling, fuel burning Challenger out for a long ride!!

It’s ok to now.

[2111USMC]

Dang! Now I need to go back outside and see if I can find him.

Or not.