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Report: Ozone Hole Has Shrunk by More Than Four Million Square Kilometers
Breitbart.com ^ | 28 Mar 2017 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: ozone; ozonehole; ozonelayer; volcaniceruptions; volcanoes
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To: Rockitz
noted attention shifting over the years from one environmental concern to another.

Gotta keep that money pot boiling.

41 posted on 03/28/2017 2:19:10 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: detsaoT

Starfish Prime (250 miles altitude) was well outside the atmosphere.


42 posted on 03/28/2017 7:42:13 PM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: bert

The ozone hole shrinks and grows depending on season... chloroflourocarbons or no chlorflourocarbons.
As far as anyone knows there has always been a seasonal thin spot down there... the atmosphere plays differently in the southern hemisphere where in contrast to the north, there is uninterrupted open sea all around Antarctica and nothing to slow air down. That causes a chain effect even into the layers above.
The ozone hole hysteria was due to new data coming in from a new satellite being used politically. They neglected to inform anyone they had no old data to use as a baseline.


43 posted on 03/28/2017 9:03:29 PM PDT by piasa
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To: IncPen

I want my FREON back-


44 posted on 03/28/2017 9:50:50 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Rockitz

Here is a FACT:

https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7044

How many penguins are mutating at this minute?

How many researchers in Antarctica have Skin Cancer from EXPOSURE?

Ultraviolet light ain’t hitting NOTHING but Ice & Water!!

Earth, Wind and Fire not affected at all.


45 posted on 03/29/2017 5:14:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

FIRST???

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110321-ozone-layer-hole-arctic-north-pole-science-environment-uv-sunscreen/


46 posted on 03/29/2017 5:18:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rockitz; Nailbiter
The sky is falling over here now, not there!

Progressivism is in perpetual need of an enemy against which to refresh its outrage.

47 posted on 03/29/2017 5:37:06 AM PDT by IncPen (Progressivism is in perpetual need of an enemy against which to refresh its outrage.)
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To: G Larry
Ozone level fluctuations are a natural cycle, just like temperature.

True. The ozone hole fluctuates in response to solar radiation levels.

48 posted on 03/29/2017 10:40:35 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BenLurkin
What size was the “ozone hole” in 1066?

Which hole ? North or South ?

49 posted on 03/29/2017 10:41:34 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: VTenigma
I guess my coffee hadn’t kicked in yet.

I've noticed that coffee is getting to be like detergent. Very diluted and ineffective.

50 posted on 03/29/2017 10:44:06 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BlueYonder; Rockitz
Any word yet on whether or not the oceans are receding?

Some are receding, some are rising, and some are doing both. (not sarcasm)

51 posted on 03/29/2017 10:46:39 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: glock rocks
... and we’re still paying 4 times as much for asthma inhalers.

Somebody has to pay the fee the companies use to bribe politicians.

52 posted on 03/29/2017 10:48:10 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Twinkie; Rockitz

Well... I recall that for the entire stretch of human history, there were those who predicted ‘death and destruction’ of an all encompassing nature. It was always used as a way to control the masses. Fear of the Future is one of the most powerful psychological tools. So powerful that now it is used every day, on everyone who watches TV.

Examples:

Mayan Priests predicting an eclipse.
Egyptian Priests predicting the flooding of the Nile.
British Leaders predicting the collapse of Britain over BREXIT.
American media predicting the collapse of the US under Trump.


53 posted on 03/29/2017 10:59:09 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: datricker; BenLurkin
I know where the hole is but the article doesn’t mention it.

He's in Tahiti at Marlon Brando's Island Paradise.

54 posted on 03/29/2017 11:01:38 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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