Tag Archives: Chlorofluorocarbon

Ozone hole in Antarctica shrinks significantly, but not a record low as erroneously reported elsewhere

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

While this is good news any way you look at it,  I note there are a number of news reports saying that the “Ozone Hole Shrinks to Record Low” which are non thinking media regurgitations from a LiveScience article by … Continue reading →

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A paper unifying cosmic ray interaction, CFC’s ozone, and warming

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

On Cosmic-Ray-Driven Electron Reaction Mechanism for Ozone Hole and Chlorofluorocarbon Mechanism for Global Climate Change Qing-Bin Lu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo Abstract Numerous laboratory measurements have provided a sound physical basis for the cosmic-ray driven electron … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Not: I love the smell of skepticism in the morning

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

Matt Ridley has just had a tremendous essay published in WIRED magazine, one that everyone should take a few minutes to read, because it sums up the issues of all the end time fears, fallacies, and failures we have collectively … Continue reading →

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D’Aleo on ozone hole: “It is very likely to have been there forever”

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

Ozone holes in Antarctic and Arctic relate to cold rebounds from warming events By Joseph D’Aleo, Weatherbell.com The ozone hole above the Antarctic has reached its maximum extent for the year, revealing a gouge in the protective atmospheric layer that … Continue reading →

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Let the inhaler hoarding begin

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

First, let’s go back a month,  this from the Will Steger Foundation: On Tuesday [August 2nd 2011], State Senator Torres Ray said, “I’m delighted to participate in the air quality awareness event organized by the Sierra Club in Minneapolis. Air … Continue reading →

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Arctic Ozone “Hole” in March

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

From the European Space Agency, a story of significant cold and wind patterns that have created an ozone “hole” in the Arctic where there normally isn’t one. The last time this happened was in 1997. It isn’t really a “hole” … Continue reading →

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My morning double take: “Arctic on the verge of record ozone loss”

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Say what? There isn’t much that surprises me anymore in the rarefied air that is climate science today. This headline made me do a double take, and the sentence that followed, blaming “unusually low temperatures”, even more so. Here’s a … Continue reading →

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New rate of stratospheric photolysis questions ozone hole

Posted on January 8, 2011 by

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow   Dr. Will Happer of Princeton wrote “The Montreal Protocol to ban freons was the warm-up exercise for the IPCC.  Many current IPCC players gained fame then by stampeding the US Congress into supporting … Continue reading →

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