For while NASA's satellites had been monitoring
ozone levels around the world 24/7, Farman had found the hole with an ageing instrument wrapped in a quilt.
Not exact matches
As is common
around the country, New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation routinely monitors the
levels of
ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates in the air.
«The Arctic stratospheric
ozone variations lead ENSO by 18 — 24 months, which means that it could be possible to extend the ENSO predictability from the current forecast
level of several months up to
around one and a half years in advance,» Jianping Li of Beijing Normal University told environmentalresearchweb.
As the Antarctic sea ice reached record
levels, scientists floated several hypotheses, including possible changes in the
ozone hole over Antarctica, or increased amounts of fresh water — which freezes more easily — on the surface of the ocean
around Antarctica.
Modelling results suggest monthly average
levels of
ozone could reach
around 110 µg / m3 (micrograms per cubic metre) over central France in July 2100, an increase of 50 µg / m3 from the year 1990.
Large areas of south - west Europe could experience average
ozone levels of
around 110 - 125 µg / m3 in July 2100, up from 95 - 105 µg / m3 in July 1990.
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?
But the EPA finding was overturned in Federal court, the
ozone hole won't be disappearing anytime in the near future, and even with the unrefuted rise in CO2
levels, skeptic climate scientists point out in vast detail how surface temperatures haven't significantly warmed for
around two decades.