Posted on 03/28/2017 6:23:38 AM PDT by Rockitz
In the period from 2000-2015, the hole in the ozone layer shrank by more than 4 million square kilometers—nearly a billion acres—according to a new report in the journal Science.
During the 1980s and into the 1990s, news of a massive hole in the ozone layer caused worldwide panic, stoked by everything from rumors of sheep being blinded by increased atmospheric radiation to the fear of a skin cancer pandemic and even comparisons to “AIDS from the sky.”
Now scientists at MIT along with others have found that since 2000 the ozone hole has actually shrunk by an area half the size of the contiguous United States, although the process is also heavily affected by variables such as volcanic eruptions from year to year.
Bryan Johnson, a research chemist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has noted attention shifting over the years from one environmental concern to another.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
With leftist professors hungry for grant money, there's always a new giant to slay....
What size was the “ozone hole” in 1066?
... and we’re still paying 4 times as much for asthma inhalers.
Yes...idiotic!
Unpossible, we gave up Freon years ago.
I did it!
WTH?! How we going to get all the evil poisonous See-Uh-O-2 out of the atmosphere. Crank up the aerosols STAT!
Since there were no chloroflurocarbons on board with the norman invaders at Prevensky, there was no ozone hole. The ozone hole measured zero Square kilometers in 1066
shhhhh.... You mean, we can't control the weather? Don't nobody tell AlGore.
Soooo, we’re still gunna die......but slower now?
Globalism and wealth redistribution is working!
Terrible article maybe I missed it. I know where the hole is but the article doesn’t mention it. Bit of an oversight
oh wait...
Global Warming giveth and Global Warming taketh away.
Sorry Al, that’s just the way it goes. Correlation still doesn’t equal causation. Back to the drawing boards, Warmers.
You have things backwards. The Ozone HOLE shrunk, which is what they were trying to accomplish. Not that anything we did helped it shrink.
“Unpossible, we gave up Freon years ago.”
The ozone and climate alarmists still promote Aerosols are Bad for the Ozone Layer years after they successfully forced chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) out of cans in the USA.
Today these quacks say Modern-day, CFC-free aerosol sprays also emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that contribute to ground-level ozone levels, a key component of asthma-inducing smog. The state of California is now regulating consumer products that contain VOCs—and aerosol sprays are not the only targets: Fingernail polish, perfumes, mouthwashes, pump hair sprays, and roll-on and stick deodorants also emit them.
SO folks it never ends with these people.
And the media will say...
See, see, those regulations ARE working.
All they’re concurring is that the hole undulates...just like the entire universe and everything within it.
LOL! re: 1066!! Thanks for the chuckle.
Ozone level fluctuations are a natural cycle, just like temperature.
Another invented crisis for political purposes.
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