Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Antarctic Ozone Hole Leveling Off

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-smaller dept.

twistedfuck writes: "An Irish Time article reports that the size of the hole in the antartican ozone layer is levelling off and should begin reducing in size. It seems like it should be welcome news but it is tempered by the fact that more UV radiation will reach the southern hemisphere this year because the hole will persist longer. Unfortunately I can not find any details regarding the NOAA report on their website." Update: 11/06 17:31 GMT by H :Thanks to Isaac Lewis, NOAA Sysadmin and Slashdot reader, for pointing out more information, as well as pointing out the ozonelayer site.

6 of 353 comments (clear)

  1. Antarctic by Rura+Penthe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pleeease can you spell it right? :) I swear it isn't hard!

    1. Re:Antarctic by bonzoesc · · Score: 0, Funny

      Now now - we hear on slashdot spell fonetically. None of your fansee spellings will be found hear.

  2. Big Deal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who Cares? This only affects those of us that
    actually go outside, and in all honestly, how many of us have actually been outside in the
    past two weeks. (Outdoor-type quake mods do not count)

    mccann@telalink.net

  3. Great, that's what G.W.Bush needs to hear =) by veddermatic · · Score: 5, Funny
    "See, fuck the environment, it just fixes itself! That Alaskan Wildlife thingie my dad and Uncle Cheney say I should let thier companies drill in will be all wildlifey again in no time!"


    Oh well. Luckily the world will end AFTER I'm dead.

    --
    Department of Homeland Security: Removing the rights real patriots fought and died for since 2001
  4. Lewis Black by QuiK_ChaoS · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the great words of Lewis Black:

    "We've got rockets, we've got plastic wrap... Fix it!"

  5. Re:Additional info at EPA site by Jeff+Probst · · Score: 2, Funny

    yup, I'm from NZ - I moved to the US long before the ozone hole was noticed - the sun back there definitely has (had) a bite that it doesn;t in the US

    thats because new zealand does not have the smog blocking the sun like the US has.

    take their smog away and they'd have more trouble than they currently do.