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Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years (weather.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Weather Channel:
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is the smallest it's been since 1988, NASA said. According to a press release, the hole in the Earth's ozone layer is 1.3 million square miles smaller than last year and 3.3 million square miles smaller than 2015... This year, the hole grew to 7.6 million square miles. NASA and NOAA scientists said warmer temperatures and a stormier upper atmosphere helped keep damaging chemicals chlorine and bromine from eating ozone from the layer that protects the Earth's surface from harmful ultraviolet rays... The hole that hovers over Antarctica has been slowly recovering, scientists say, due to an international ban on harmful chemicals that were previously used in refrigerants and aerosols.
The hole was its largest in 2000 and measured 11.5 million square miles. Although recovery is underway, the size of the hole remains large compared to the 1980s, when the hole was first detected, NASA noted. And while there has been significant healing of the ozone layer in recent years, some scientists say full healing is a slow process and will not occur until sometime in the 22nd century, Yale Environment 360 reports. Others expect the Antarctic ozone hole to recover back to 1980 levels around 2070, NASA said.
The hole was its largest in 2000 and measured 11.5 million square miles. Although recovery is underway, the size of the hole remains large compared to the 1980s, when the hole was first detected, NASA noted. And while there has been significant healing of the ozone layer in recent years, some scientists say full healing is a slow process and will not occur until sometime in the 22nd century, Yale Environment 360 reports. Others expect the Antarctic ozone hole to recover back to 1980 levels around 2070, NASA said.
Man caused global warming (climate change) is NOT REAL. It's a made up term used by morons, trying to bilk wealthy nations out of money, in a form of redistribution. You really want to know what screws up our weather? Go look up the term Maunder Minimum, Dalton Minimum, Modern Maximum (which just ended). The SUNSPOT CYCLE is what impacts weather on Earth, more than man could ever dream of (short of an all out global nuclear war). One good belch from a volcano has more impact on our weather than "man". The modern maximum, with cycle 23 just ended within the past year, but the trend in sunspots has been down, WAY down. There have been many times this past winter & spring, that the Earth facing solar disk has been completely BLANK. NOT ONE sunspot. Sunspots are disturbances on the surface of the sun, magnetic ripples. When one of those lets go a coronal mass ejection (CME), and it is streaming to the Earth, it strikes our magnetic field, and can change weather patterns. There is evidence now from some, stating the positions of Venus & Uranus can also change the suns relationship with regard to spots. In the 1700's, (the Maunder minimum) winters were so cold, the Thames in London, and the Potomac in Maryland FROZE SOLID. We had the modern maximum in the period where people like Algore came up with the idea of "man made global warming". Now, in the past couple of years, after cycle 23, the trend has been for cooler overall temperatures. But, since most people under the age of 30, have been indoctrinated from birth to "save the polar bears" bla bla bla, they will not look at the hard science of what really impacts this little blue ball in space. Boy it’s been fun cruising the liberal blogs watching their collective heads EXPLODE. This man made global warming nonsense needs to be put to rest. THE SUN is what changes our climate. Man couldn’t change it, short of an all out nuclear war, if it wanted to. One belch from a volcano screws up the weather more than man can do. Why don’t you guys start researching the solar sunspot cycles over the last 400 years and then lay the graphic temperatures on top and you will see they are pretty much the same. Cycle 23, just ended, and with it, ended what REAL scientist call the modern maximum (1950's through early 2000's). The trend in the last 9 years has been for less spots on the sun, which results in less geomagnetic disturbances. Those disturbances, in the form of coronal mass ejections (CME’s) hit the magnetic bubble around our planet, and screw with the weather...not man. In all likelyhood we are heading toward a COOLING trend, not a warming trend, but, you’ve been indoctrinated since birth into believing it is all man’s fault, and, in particular, “evil rich white slaveholder men from the imperialist United States”.