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Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade
hypnosec writes "The ozone layer seems to be on a road to recovery over Antarctica; according to Europe's MetOp weather satellite, which is monitoring atmospheric ozone, the hole over the South Pole in 2012 was the smallest it's been in the last 10 years. The decrease in size of the hole is probably the result of reduction in the concentration of CFCs, especially since the mid-1990s, because of international agreements like the Montreal Protocol."
CFCs compounds have absolutely nothing to do with the annual ozone layer depletion above Antartica, which results from the combined effect of the Antartic Vortex, which, each winter, insulates Antartica from the Ozone-rich tropical air during several months, and Ozone instability does the rest, until the sunset.
The Ozone layer itself is a red herring, since technically it is not a protection from, but the result of the interaction between solar UV radiation and dioxygen molecules in the upper atmosphere. Ozone is an unstable compound, which disappears naturally in the absence of incoming solar UV.
The annual "hole" over Antartica is that zone where Ozone layer concentration falls beyond its average during the long Antartica winter, but never to zero, if you will notice the units on the nice photos published every year in september-october near sunset for better effect.
Within weeks after sunset, the Antartica vortex weakens, allowing the Ozone-rich air from tropics to enter, and soon, there is no more "Ozone hole". This typically chaotic phenomenon has been occuring forever, as far as we know, because it has been observed since observations began, which was well before CFCs were even invented, let alone commercialized on an industrial scale.
The Ozone scam, because scientifically, it doesn't stand one minute to scrutinity, has been created by none other than... Al Gore, who managed to create that scare by which the UN body in charge of supervising CFCs for "Ozone layer protection" and organising the CFCs prohibition was created.
That was a total success for Al Gore, who immediately thereafter renamed that organization "IPCC" and went on to an ongoing campaign aiming at disupting energy supply by way of taxing "carbon" and the like.
You are witnessing a purely political scam at work.
I predict we will never see any significant reduction of that famous "Ozone hole", because it is simply a natural, seasonal occurence, and its aspect will always vary from year to year, like it always did.
As a side note, after years of fudging temperature data, the divorce between reality and "adjusted" measurements by the Global Warming propaganda club (always the same persons) is becoming more and more obvious every year. That other scam is not going to stay very long either. What could be the next one ? There are plenty of possibilities, that will be amusing to see which one they pick...
You are a denier. Because you put "economics" a.k.a short term profits first. Basically you say "If I cannot earn money polluting, fuck you".
History is full of people like you, screwing with environment for their short term profits, leading to a disaster in long term.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Are you equally as skeptical about the Holocaust and other "controversial" topics?