NASA Announces Record Ozone Hole

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 20, 2006 @05:48PM from the we-need-a-really-big-patch dept.

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.""

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Re:Was Wondering... by Alioth · 2006-10-20 19:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

Obsoleting CFCs (not just Freon) has helped, but it will take decades - CFCs linger for an awfully long time, depleting ozone for an awfully long time.

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Funny ..... by snoggeramus · 2006-10-21 00:19 · Score: 1, Redundant

No mention of the hole that is made every time the space shuttle punches through.