A bigger hole in the ozone layer over Northern Hemisphere countries could mean more UV damage to humans, animals and plants.
Not exact matches
In early October 2006, the Antarctic stratosphere was the coldest it has been since 1979, and the
ozone hole loomed
bigger than ever, spanning an area larger than North America.
Our emissions to the atmosphere impact on natural processes, the environment, and health
in very many ways — the
ozone hole was the first
big warning.
The Antarctic
ozone hole was
big news
in the eighties.
Paradoxically, the
ozone hole in 2011 was about as
big as it was
in 2006, even though CFCs should have declined
in those years due to the phasing out of their use.
Using a computer model, they showed that weather conditions would have lowered the amount of
ozone over Antarctica anyways, and that the
big hole was a result of winds from the tropics carrying less
ozone to the area than
in the years before.
The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the
ozone holes haven't got
bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse
in recent years and guess what?
Hahaha — And don't forget that the trees
in question are
in the NH, while the
big bad
ozone hole is
in the SH.