Antarctic Ozone Hole Leveling Off

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.

Comments

Re:Hooray for regulation?

[Kaki Nix Sain]

Your use of the phrase "begging the question" is confusing. Due to similar uses, that phrase is loosing its meaning as a term for a certain type of reasoning and coming to mean "raising the question" for which we already have a perfectly good phrase. There is no need to diminish a nice piece of terminology and risk ambiguity to say what you meant.

Re:Great, that's what G.W.Bush needs to hear =)

[Digitalia]

You forget that Bush only made it into Harvard because of Papa Bush's intimate ties with the school. Hell, his father was a Skull and Bonesman for gods' sakes. Couple this with his father's position as head of the CIA at the time and you're pretty much guaranteed of getting into Harvard.

And alot of good that business degree did, too. Look up the Bush family financial (mis)dealings online someday. There's more fraud and deceit than just Neal has been party too, I'll tell you. We're talking shell companies, SEC violations and the whole twenty yards.

Of course, I'd have taken John McCain over either one of them, too. I sincerely hope he tries running again next year and that the party doesn't just automatically give the party nomination to Bush. McCain is a very strong politician who is truly Republican. He cares about our rights and he doesn't care whether we're Satan worshipping Sodomites slowly slipping away to Hell.