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Sun Storms Deplete Ozone, Too
An anonymous reader writes "Turns out the sun itself zaps the ozone that protects us from the sun. LiveScience is reporting that the record-setting string of solar storms around Halloween in 2003 (including an X28 flare) set off a cascade of events that depleted the ozone layer over the Arctic in early 2004. In a nutshell, more nitrogen was created, and an unusually strong vortex of high-speed winds aloft brought the nitrogen down, where it contributed to cutting ozone by 60 percent over the polar region. In January, the a European scientist warned residents of the far north to basically stay out of the sun. While chlorofluorocarbons are still blamed for ozone depletion, scientists said this study shows they don't properly account for the sun's impact."
It's Bush's fault.
There's a natural cause, we don't need to stop driving SUV's.
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How can it not be? Check out that Asian smog cloud.
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But Sean, some friendly advice, unlike matter and anti-matter, when comedy and anti-comedy meet there isn't a earth shattering boom. Only silence.
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or be able to "take a joke". That's what I would have written if I wasn't multi-tasking.
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You mean like a black hole.
Go ahead, mod me troll. But you laughed.
Yes you did.
Solar storms may change ozone on a very short time-scale. The thing is, that time scale is so short it doesn't appear to show on long-term measurements; what we DO see in the northern mid-latitudes is a steady year-by-year decline starting at about 1970. This is not explainable by solar storms (if so, you'd expect ozone to follow the sunspot cycle).
Time is Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once... the bitch.
A theory that uses modest data to predict climate change? That never stopped the "OMFG! The US is teh suk for not join Koyoto!!!!!!1111" from believing anything.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
Solar Storm comes along, depletes Ozone layer.
-Something already accomplished handily by man with his CFC's.
Volcano erupts, spewing clouds of ash and Greenhouse Gases into the sky.
-Something already accomplished many times over by man with his Cars and Industry.
The point here? Nature does this in moderation. Man does this out of control.
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it's called a JOKE... you know, HUMOR
You mean the original parent? No, that is not the case. Humor is funny.
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