Tag Archives: Ozone depletion

Who would have guessed it? Sunlit snow key to Arctic ozone depletion

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

I like this study from the NSF, because they did hands-on empirical measurements and experiments to make  the determination – Anthony Sunlit Snow Triggers Atmospheric Cleaning, Ozone Depletion in the Arctic Finding is related to snow atop sea ice, adding … Continue reading →

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Ozone depletion trumps greenhouse gas increase in jet-stream shift

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

From Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Depletion of Antarctic ozone is a more important factor than increasing greenhouse gases in shifting the Southern Hemisphere jet stream in a southward direction, according to researchers at Penn State. “Previous research suggests … Continue reading →

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Good news: 2012 Antarctic Ozone Hole is the second smallest in 20 years

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

Daily ozone hole images from Jul 1, 2012 to Oct. 19, 2012. The ozone hole max is on Sept. 22, 2012. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center – click image for movie WASHINGTON — The average area covered by the Antarctic … 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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Climate change – off in the ozone

Posted on July 26, 2012 by

From the Harvard University  news service and the what are they smoking department, comes this suggestion that apparently it never was ozone damaging CFC refrigerants at all, it was those nasty thunderstorms wot done it.  They say: “Recent studies have … Continue reading →

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Natural Variability in the Widths of the Tropics

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my previous post, “Does This Analysis Make My Tropics Look Big?“I discussed a paper called “Recent Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion primarily driven by black carbon and tropospheric ozone”, by Robert Allen et al, hereinafter … Continue reading →

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Does This Analysis Make My Tropics Look Big?

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a new paper in Nature magazine that claims that the tropics are expanding. This would be worrisome because it could push the dry zones further north and south, moving the Saharan aridity into … Continue reading →

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Oh, Canada!

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

From Penn State: Environment Canada cuts threaten science, international agreements Recent cuts to the scientific workforce of Environment Canada, a government agency responsible for meteorological services and environmental research, threaten scientific research related to the ozone layer in the upper … 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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Ozone hole “…caused a great deal of the climate change that’s been observed”

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

Columbia engineering study links ozone hole to climate change all the way to the equator First time that ozone depletion is shown to impact the entire circulation of the southern hemisphere In a study to be published in the April … 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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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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Antarctic Ozone Hole smallest in five years

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

  From MSNBC: WELLINGTON, New Zealand — International efforts to phase out the use of chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting substances may be paying off, according to research revealed Friday by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. … Continue reading →

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