That
there hole in the ozone layer gets blamed for all sorts of mischief.
Not exact matches
We managed to stop putting a
hole in the
ozone layer by phasing out the chemicals that were causing it (cholofluorocarbons) and, as a result, the
hole is closing and
there are millions fewer cases of skin cancer than
there would otherwise have been.
«
There are ways that this approach could increase global
ozone but at the same time, because of the climate dynamics
in the polar regions, increase the
ozone hole.»
Similar clouds
in the Antarctic, which cause the
ozone hole there, have been observed from American spy planes, but the less stable northern clouds have been studied only with balloons and satellites.
There are ways that this approach could increase global
ozone but at the same time, because of the climate dynamics
in the polar regions, increase the
ozone hole,» Keith said.
Another is almost certainly the infamous
ozone hole that opened up over Antarctica
in the 1980s, and which is still
there.
And yes,
there is such evidence —
in the predicted response to volcanic forcing, the
ozone hole, orbital variations, the sun, paleo - lake outbursts, the response to ENSO etc. that all show models matching the observations skillfully (which is not to say they match perfectly).
Attention, Housekeeping: Clean - up on Aisle Ten;
there is a disgusting spill from a mess of self - satisfaction leaking out of an
ozone hole in the head.
On top of that
there is the influence of the
ozone hole, which only comes into play from the 1980s onwards which seems to have influenced the wind patterns and led to consequent cooling
in the interior.
There were early bans on CFC aerosol propellants and actions by environmentalists, together with the predictable opposition of vested interests; but the «tipping point» was the discovery by British Antarctic survey scientists of an «
ozone hole» over Antartica
in October 1984.
There is nothing «natural» about these extremes of weather over the last 2 years, or about the unprecedented
ozone hole in the Arctic last year (troposphere warming from greenhouse gases caused stratospheric cooling to below threshold temperature for polar stratospheric cloud generation and
ozone destruction).
Don't you know that
there's a
hole in the
ozone layer that's going to give you cancer and burn your face off?!? 1990s Sucker: What?!? Oh my God!
There may be physics that isn't included
in the models that might lead to dramatic changes (c.f. the
ozone hole physics that were not included
in the first models of
ozone depletion).
It is striking to what extent they resemble the spatial pattern seen
in the AR4 ensemble free - running version rather than the initiallised forecast, though
there are also some correlations
there too (for instance, west of the Antarctic peninsula, related to the
ozone -
hole and GHG related increase
in the Southern Annular Mode).
The loudest objections and most frequent emails come from the folks who also tend to believe: * The USA did not land on the moon *
There was a government conspiracy
in the JFK assassination * Fluoride
in our water supply is a method of government control * The world is only ~ 5,000 years old * CFC's have no impact on the
ozone hole.
Similarly,
there was no
hole in the Antarctic
ozone.
There are no
holes in the
ozone.
There have been some recent bumper springtime
holes in Antarctic
ozone.
The Arctic ice pack is thinning, and
in many years
there is also a seasonal
hole in the
ozone layer.
I also received a very short note from one of the oldest, most recognized climate alarmists out
there, the developer of the Gaia hypothesis and key player
in the
ozone hole scare.
There are unproven links
in the chain of reasoning of a study that claims that more powerful thunderstorms could blast a
hole in the
ozone layer.
Fourth,
there was a point
in late 2006 and 2007 when
there was some question about whether CFCs were causing the
ozone hole.
There are a lot of questions: what is the climate response to solar activity and no solar activity, changes
in TSI, spectral variability, particle events, cosmic - ray variability, volcanic aerosols, the Antarctic
ozone hole.
We all know
there's a «
hole»
in the
ozone layer — a section of the atmosphere over Antarctica where the concentration of
ozone is a lot lower than it should be.
Your entire climate overview to the effect that
there has been no significant solar effect on the climate is down to your belief
in the anthropogenic nature of the growth of the
ozone hole which allows you to attribute the observed changes
in the temperature of the stratosphere to internal variability (albeit anthropogenic).
A study
in Science magazine (Newman, 1994) concluded, «
There is no credible evidence for an
ozone hole in 1958.»
It's now known that
ozone is destroyed
in the stratosphere and that some human - released chemicals such as CFC's are speeding up the breakdown of
ozone, so that
there are «
holes» now
in our protective shield.