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NASA Announces Record Ozone Hole
Drewsk writes "NASA has announced that the ozone hole over the Antarctic has broken all records. From the story: 'From September 21 to 30, the average area of the ozone hole was the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million square miles,' said Paul Newman, atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. If the stratospheric weather conditions had been normal, the ozone hole would be expected to reach a size of about 8.9 to 9.3 million square miles, about the surface area of North America.""
Sometimes I wonder whether or not the ozone hole has always been there and we just noticed the hole one day and thought it was something special.
Sure! Your intuition is far more powerful than 100 years of scien-ma-tific observation.
I mean, the Earth is slightly egg shaped, doesn't it kind of make sense for the atmosphere to also not be spherical?
Sure! As my butt is slightly egg-shaped, you can expect my farts to be egg-shaped as well. Wha? My farts intruded on your space? Must be bad science.
For fuck's sake, chief. Go back to eighth grade science class, then come back and post on slashdot. Willya?
Not too different from the area of North America.
My english is sow-sow. Sowhat?
So... They told us a story of a pending cataclysm coming because people are using hair spray and freon, then some well-connected people made 500 gazillion dollars on CFC-free equipment that the rest of us were forced by law to buy, and now that scary hole in the atmosphere is embarrassingly growing bigger than ever and we're embarrassingly still alive. I want to know A) how I can sign up for the class action law suit against these pigs, and B) can we please not do the same thing with global warming?