A couple of years ago, I spent two months in the mediteranean through middle of August to October. I was out in the sun all day and built up an excellent tan. However, on getting back to Australia, the first weekend I spent half an hour outside without sunscreen and still got burnt to a crisp (and had my tan peel off to boot). That just proved to me that the sun is a lot more intense down here.
However, I understand with what you're saying. I never get burnt on the parts of me like my arms and legs that spend a lot of time in the sun without sunscreen. So it would be easy for me to agree that sunscreens are stopping us from building up our natural defenses. However, when I look at my arms and leg's it's easy to see where I WILL get skin cancer first.
Fine. There was a certain shift in the winds this year down in Tasmania that led to lower readings of CFC's. Come back in 5 years and tell me that there has been a sustained reduction in the level's of CFC's measured and it might carry more weight.
What concerns me more is that it seems that it has taken me less than 15 minutes this year to succumb to my first bout of sunburn down here in Australia. It seems to get easier and easier to get sunburnt at the start of summer each year.
They should stop doing dubious press releases based upon marginal information like this one simply to justify their jobs. They should come back when they have actually measured greater levels of ozone for a few years (when I'm not getting burned so easy). Then I might be impressed.
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A couple of years ago, I spent two months in the mediteranean through middle of August to October. I was out in the sun all day and built up an excellent tan. However, on getting back to Australia, the first weekend I spent half an hour outside without sunscreen and still got burnt to a crisp (and had my tan peel off to boot). That just proved to me that the sun is a lot more intense down here. However, I understand with what you're saying. I never get burnt on the parts of me like my arms and legs that spend a lot of time in the sun without sunscreen. So it would be easy for me to agree that sunscreens are stopping us from building up our natural defenses. However, when I look at my arms and leg's it's easy to see where I WILL get skin cancer first.
Fine. There was a certain shift in the winds this year down in Tasmania that led to lower readings of CFC's. Come back in 5 years and tell me that there has been a sustained reduction in the level's of CFC's measured and it might carry more weight. What concerns me more is that it seems that it has taken me less than 15 minutes this year to succumb to my first bout of sunburn down here in Australia. It seems to get easier and easier to get sunburnt at the start of summer each year. They should stop doing dubious press releases based upon marginal information like this one simply to justify their jobs. They should come back when they have actually measured greater levels of ozone for a few years (when I'm not getting burned so easy). Then I might be impressed.