“Three British scientists shocked the world when they revealed on May 16th, 1985 — 25 years ago — that aerosol chemicals, among other factors, had torn a hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole. The ozone layer, which protects life on Earth from damaging solar radiation, became an overnight sensation. And the hole in the ozone layer became the poster-child for mankind’s impact on the planet.
Today, the ozone hole — actually a region of thinned ozone, not actually a pure hole — doesn’t make headlines like it used to. The size of the hole has stabilized, thanks to decades of aerosol-banning legislation. But, scientists warn, some danger still remains.
First, the good news: Since the 1989 Montreal Protocol banned the use of ozone-depleting chemicals worldwide, the ozone hole has stopped growing. Additionally, the ozone layer is blocking more cancer-causing radiation than any time in a decade because its average thickness has increased, according to a 2006 United Nations report. Atmospheric levels of ozone-depleting chemicals have reached their lowest levels since peaking in the 1990s, and the hole has begun to shrink.
Now the bad news: The ozone layer has also thinned over the North Pole. This thinning is predicted to continue for the next 15 years due to weather-related phenomena that scientists still cannot fully explain, according to the same UN report . And, repairing the ozone hole over the South Pole will take longer than previously expected, and won’t finish until between 2060 and 2075. Scientists now understand that the size of the ozone hole varies dramatically from year to year, which complicates attempts to accurately predict the hole’s future size.
Interestingly, recent studies have shown that the size of the ozone hole affects the global temperature. Closing the ozone hole actually speeds up the melting of the polar ice caps, according to a 2009 study from Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
So even though environmentally friendly laws have successfully reversed the trend of ozone depletion, the lingering effects of aerosol use, and the link between the ozone hole and global warming, virtually ensure that this problem will persist until the end of the century.”
Read more at LiveScience.com
I believe those sharing buttons are really great on this page makes you think of a fart pop, pop, pop well then again the whole OZone matter makes you also think of farts. cows they don’t do our ozone any good.
My bet is that my previous comment made a/the moderator(s) laugh or have a morning giggle.
The earth is a dynamic equilibrium, It heals naturally.
That is how life has survived ice ages every 12,000 years.
Hole tempting so blatantly? No fair!
I don’t understand why they are saying all of this.
It’s clearly a natural “cycle”.
The ice will continue to melt whether or not we use burn harmful fuels.
The Universe is a unified consciousness.
This stage of being has been “anticipated”.
Everything that happens is within nature.
The Earth is going through a stage now that, you either follow and evolve, or refute and get left behind.
The world is in a state where we are destroying ourselves, and most of this is derrived from money.
Stop worrying, live your life and be open to change.
Hole Tempting… I lost!
I’m sure on QI they mentioned every million years the Earth’s poles swap (so north becomes south). Maybe it has something to do with the changes, along with all the other natural occurances. Of course humans can help with reducing pollution but Earth has been around for a tad longer.
Whoever hacked the blog must have taken offence to falling for the hole-tempt.
This instance of Hole Tempting is in clear violation of rule 63, subsection B in chapter four of the Hole Tempting Rules and Regulations (2009). I’d like to register my disappointment and call for an instant retraction.
Good to see the Blog is Back
I see that my attempt to hack the Derren Brown blog with my mental powers was unsuccessful. Damnation!
How dare you hole-tempt me!!! It’s just unfair…
Professor Philip Stott (at SOAS) says climate change is the New Marxism. Starting to take the science a little more seriously. Blaming the Industrial Revolution less.
god damn, that is unfair hole tempting! luckily though, you cant now punch me
i win!
The o-zone layer is the least of our worries. The changing of the poles is causing a weakening in our magnetosphere which is allowing radiation from the sun into our atmosphere. There currently is a giant weakening over South America (Brazil if i recall correctly) which continues to grow larger and eventually, the magnetosphere will dissipate completely for a long period and the earth will be susceptible to all the suns radiation making this planet a bit more like Mars today. But we’ll all be well dead by then. Wahey!
the law of unintended consequences raises its ugly head again…as usual! :/
Kwayzal you don’t know what you are talking about.God how many times do I need to explain this.Yes the earth warms and cools naturally but never at this rate. Do you have any idea how much land will be lost, species extinct and people dead if we continue doing what we are now. People who don’t believe in saving the planet from global warming should killed for the sake of humanity. Please in only complain about things you actually understand.
It’s not news any more because the campaign led media have got other things to scare us with now. Have you noticed they can only focus on one major scary thing at a time and the others eventually recede into the shadows?
The Oil Crisis.
The Cold War.
The Amazon rainforests.
The Ozone Layer.
Global Warming.
War!
Hunting.
Terrorism.
Carbon Footprints.
The Recession.
The Election.
To name but a few.
What’s next?
Methinks the crash of more Fiat Currencies / more bailouts, more war or some more terrorism.
C’mon stephen, grow some brains. Don’t be such a hippy…
C’mon Boris.
Did you even read Kwayzal or journojulz’s posts? Total New Age BS. That’s even worse than Stephen’s “hippieness”.
Dear Global Friends,
Why don’t they dare not blame on those powerful countries which tested the missiles and sending rockets many times into outer space, as well as sending frequencies to and fro from satellites to Earth and vice-versa.
Dear Global Friends,
Who can conquer Nature ??
Curiousity ? As the saying mentions, ” Curiousity kills the cat.
If Nature can be conquered, then human beings are committing suicide.
How much can ” intelligent ” humans or powerful rich nations supply
to the whole world like what Mother Nature delivers free of
“Her Natural Seen and Unseen Products” for billions of years
to living and non-living things ?
Dear Friendly People,
The Natural Law of changes has to follow its respective courses,
but through humans’ curiousity and “cleverness” or GREED
they tend to go against IT.
Example, a ship has to follow the natural course of the strong current flow.
so what if they would be able to control the holes… be able to make smaller 1s and then seal them up to let the greenhouse gases escape so that it would lower the global temprature and melting of the ice
so their wud be
NO MORE OF THAT BLOODY ENVIRONMENT CRAP
im not a science genius or maybe even quite old enouth to understand everything on this site, but a way of sealing them up could be going throught the layers and finding out the external layer or the1 that protects it from escaping