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Ozone Hole
Ozone Hole: - A thinning break in the stratospheric ozone layer. Designation of amount of such depletion as an "ozone hole" is made when the detected amount of depletion exceeds fifty percent. Seasonal ozone holes have been observed over both the Antarctic and Arctic regions, part of Canada, and the extreme northeastern United States. [Environmental Protection Agency] News archive for Ozone Hole:: |
Environmental Expert (press release),...ozone and deplete the ozone layer, and in the 1980s a thinning of the ozone layer in the stratosphere was discovered – the so-called “ozone hole�.
Warming to rumors of ozone, VH1 - Jul 25, 2008
News & Observer,So in the 2090s, my great-great-great grandchildren will probably learn all about the ozone hole repair by watching "I Love The 2070s" on VH1.
Ozone's hole in the world food crisis - Jul 7, 2008
Baruch College The Ticker,The rise of a worldwide food crisis is quickly becoming a crucial issue, one that scientists are working to solve. According to an article from the online
One prediction about climate change challenges another - Jul 7, 2008
ZDNetRemember the ozone hole? Well, the CFCs that were apparnetly causing the ozone hole to grow, have been reduced in human industry and releases are waning.
A cool way to chill out - Aug 2, 2008
GulfNews,In the decade that followed the Montreal Protocol was made more stringent as mounting evidence proved stratospheric ozone depletion and the ozone hole in
Plants As a Force of Nature - Aug 3, 2008
RedOrbit,...and provides an entertaining account of how scientists of the British Antarctic Survey documented the existence of an Antarctic ozone hole in the early
20th Anniversary Flashback: Rush Debates Gore on Nightline - Jul 30, 2008
RushLimbaugh.com (subscription),The sun makes ozone, and there's an ozone hole in the Antarctic Circle and the Arctic Circle simply because the sun is below the horizon for a portion of
Clean and green spaces - Aug 3, 2008
Newindpress,This ecology is not just about the larger issues of the Universe or the Earth with its global warming or ozone hole, but begins at home in one’s own
See levels rise - Aug 2, 2008
Grist Magazine,...menus providing data on "Vital Signs of the Planet," including Arctic sea ice, carbon dioxide, sea level rise, global temperature, and the ozone hole.
The Finish Line for the Next Space Race: Planet Earth - Jul 29, 2008
Wired NewsIt was NASA satellites that discovered the ozone hole and led to the banning of CFCs. It was reams and reams of data painstakingly collected in part by NASA
Two Companies, Two Different Blueprints for Reducing Global Warming - Jul 9, 2008
Knowledge@Wharton (subscription),..."We at DuPont look at global warming like the ozone hole over the Antarctica." Scientists identified a hole in the earth's protective ozone gas layer in the
Statement by Maria T. Zuber: Hearing on NASA at 50: Past ... - Jul 30, 2008
Space Ref (press release)...the Earth's tectonic plates, characterization of the ozone hole, the three-dimensional structure of hurricanes, the general circulation of the oceans,
A cheap shot - Jul 10, 2008
Timaru Herald,When you consider the population of New Zealand and the fact there is a gaping ozone hole over the entire country, that effort seems a little silly,
McCain's Melanoma Cover-Up - Jul 10, 2008
CounterPunch,Then suddenly in the mid-1980s, scientists found shocking proof of the theory, a dramatic ozone hole above the Antarctic. The result was the historically
AMS July science highlights - Jul 15, 2008
EurekAlert (press release),The book weaves together complex topics such as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, air pollution, and the ozone hole in an easy to understand story.
Fully updated climate change book by Scripps researcher now ... - Jul 24, 2008
EurekAlert (press release),The book weaves together complex topics such as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, air pollution and the ozone hole in an easy-to-understand story.
NOAA Hosts Educators Climate Change Conference Event - Jul 20, 2008
Kansas City infoZine,Co-Chair of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the discoverer of the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole,
ESA Reveals An Inconvenient Truth About Gaming Industry - Jul 17, 2008
Tom's Games,...be bigger than whole PC gaming industry. Dear ESA, this is "whoopsie" size of the Ozone hole on top of Antarctic. This is quite a mishap, guys'n'girls.
DVDetective - Like my shiny metal ass - Jul 16, 2008
VUE Weekly,A rip in space looms (echoes of the ozone hole?), but humans are either too terrified or tired of the alarm to actually do anything.
Melting Ice = Rising Seas? Easy. How Fast? Hard. - Jul 14, 2008
New York Times Blogs,I believe that the ozone hole and high carbon emissions are not the main cause of any warming trend. Its just more people, and mostly overweight (ha-ha).
Heal Yourself With Sunlight (Part 1 of Timeless Secrets of Health ... - 03 Dec 2007
Newstarget.com,To that effect, a study of Punta Arenas, the largest South American city close to the Antarctic ozone hole, showed no increase in health problems related to
Hole in ozone shrinking, scientists say - Nov 16, 2007
ABC Online,...(File photo) (Reuters: NASA) While the news on climate change gets worse, the news on the ozone layer is getting better - the ozone hole above the Antarctic
Ozone hole shrinking - scientists - Nov 15, 2007
NEWS.com.au,By Darren Osborne THE ozone layer is on track to a full recovery, with the latest sets of satellite images showing the hole is shrinking, scientists say.
Ozone hole closing up, research shows - Nov 15, 2007
ABC Online,..."But if you don't consider the ozone hole of 2002 - that was very anomalous in that it that it split in two - this is the smallest ozone hole for the past
Greenhouse Villain Could Be a White Knight After All - Nov 30, 2007
New York Times,If the notorious “ozone hole� above the southern polar region continued to expand, scientists said, the ultraviolet radiation would harm living things
Ozone Hole Shrinks To Near Average Size - Nov 7, 2007
KWTX,...(November 7, 2007)--Scientists have announced that the ozone hole over Antarctica this year is only slightly larger than the 10 year average.
NOAA Study Reports Improvements in the Ozone Hole Since Last Year - Nov 5, 2007
Associated Content,..."This year's ozone hole is no giant - and that's good news," remarked Earth System Research Laboratory scientist Bryan Johnson in the press release.
Global warming is pushing edges of tropics towards poles: study - Dec 2, 2007
AFPPossible factors include the ozone hole, warming of the sea's surface and an increase in the tropopause, a boundary layer between the troposphere and the
Get Your Environmental Horror Stories Straight - Nov 27, 2007
Manufacturers' Blog,..."It is absurd," [Wurmser] said to general astonishment, "that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice contributes to the Ozone hole by jetting across the world
Defining moment for climate change - Dec 2, 2007
GulfNews,...ice in Antarctica, damaged Amazon rainforest in Brazil, and the need to wear protective gear against ultraviolet radiation from ozone hole in Chile.
Ozone depletion and its impact on environment - Nov 6, 2007
Commodity Online,Why has an “Ozone hole� appeared over Antarctica when Ozone-depleting gases are present throughout the stratosphere? Ozone-depleting gases are present
The Big Melt. Lesson From the Arctic Summer of 2007 - Nov 13, 2007
Japan Focus,Then the Antarctic Ozone Hole was discovered and scientists realized that liquids, solids and gases were interacting in ways to produce much faster and more
GOODBYE 80S HOMO by Peter Cross - Dec 2, 2007
Sydney Star Observer,...(And you wonder why we have an ozone hole.) Just so we all knew who and what we were, we wore subtle distinguishing trademarks so we could be picked out in
Removing Our Kids from the Front Lines of Climate Change - Nov 28, 2007
WorldChangingSpecies extinction, logging of old-growth forests, elimination of wetlands and wild places, growth of the ozone hole: one essential response to these
Our bit for a greener sky - Nov 29, 2007
Ha'aretz,...leading to environmental consequences that are perhaps more serious than the ozone-hole phenomenon that occupied the scientific community in the 1990s.
Mark Bennett: Retired ISU prof edits book designed to take climate ... - Nov 17, 2007
Terre Haute Tribune Star,...“Because there are so many uncertainties involved in global climate change, the impact presented by the IPCC may be also underestimated� like the ozone hole
Global warming naysayers spread fear - Dec 1, 2007
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner,Experiences from many other environmental crises (eg the ozone hole or acid rain) suggest that well-thought-out regulations and incentives,
The nature of art and science - Nov 29, 2007
Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine,The central design is surrounded with map fragments, photos from winter explorations in the Lake Superior region and a vision of the ozone hole over
The Lamentations of Julius Marantz - Nov 21, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,GEKO is concerned about overpopulation and the growing ozone hole. In a flash of brilliance, it decides to, um, plug the latter with the former.
200 years of science: Boulder labs hold celebration - Nov 3, 2007
Daily Camera,...studying ocean and coastal regions, detecting forest fires and volcanic eruptions, monitoring the ozone hole and the space environment.
Les Chevaliers de l’Ordre de la Terre Plate, Part I: Allègre and ... - Nov 18, 2007
RealClimateWe "adapted" to the ozone hole by passing the Montreal Protocol to control CFC emissions. We "adapted" to acid rain by passing pollution control measures
Alarming UN report on climate change is too rosy, many say - Nov 18, 2007
International Herald Tribune,...rainforest in Brazil, and children in Chile having to wear protective clothing because an ozone hole was letting in so much ultraviolet radiation.
A signal leaders 'cannot afford to ignore' - Nov 18, 2007
The Age,...witnessed the devastation of climate change in disappearing glaciers of Antarctica and the deforested Amazon, as well as under the ozone hole in Chile.
UN Panel Gives Dire Warming Forecast - Nov 17, 2007
The Associated PressHe said he witnessed the devastation of climate change in disappearing glaciers of Antarctica, the deforested Amazon and under the ozone hole in Chile.
CU-Boulder Environmental Institute Celebrates 40 Years, Becomes A ... - Nov 5, 2007
CU Boulder News & Events,The institute played a lead role in developing "nuclear winter" theory and studying the stratospheric ozone hole during the 1980s.
Refrigerators are the forgotten climate killers - Nov 13, 2007
Processing Talk,...cfcs also damage the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer and therefore contribute to the fact that the so-called 'ozone hole' is continuing to grow or,
Litany of negative news starting to wear on even toughest investors - Nov 15, 2007
Ottawa Citizen,Hate to sound cynical but where's a good ozone hole when you really need one? Gold? The metal, priced in US dollars, has shot up 30 per cent in the past 12
Forum heralds green energy over coal - Nov 13, 2007
Marshalltown Times Republican,...was a drastic drop in emissions over the next decade and a measurable decrease in the size of the ozone hole cfcs were attributed to creating, she said,
In 1816, global cooling may have spurred moves to Mo. - Nov 11, 2007
Southeast Missourian,...global temperatures half a degree the following year. The following two years, the ozone hole over Antarctica increased to its largest size on record.
Protecting coastal waters - Nov 6, 2007
Straight Goods,We should remember that it is regulations that are credited for beginning to address the ozone hole and production of cfcs and they have proven the only
Researchers question cause of ozone hole - Jul 27, 2007
Stuff.co.nz,Some British researchers are questioning the extent to which man-made chemicals are mainly responsible for the "ozone hole" that forms over Antarctica each
Antarctic ozone hole may go in 50 years - study - Aug 8, 2007
Radio New Zealand,Scientific estimates suggest the ozone hole over Antartica could completely repair itself in as little as 50 years. A study of ozone recovery over
Ozone alert - Aug 14, 2007
Earth & Sky,But Earth’s ozone layer has been getting thinner – and there’s also an ozone hole that comes and goes over the continent of Antarctica.
NASA Ozone Instrument Laid to Rest After Three Decades - Aug 17, 2007
PhysOrg.com,A graph of the size of the ozone hole from 1979 to 2004. Click image to enlarge. Credit: NASA During its almost 30-year lifespan, the Total Ozone Mapping
Too Hot to Handle - Aug 16, 2007
American SpectatorFinally, after much looking, they found an Ozone hole up by the North Pole -- a reading by NASA on Jan. 20, 1991. There'd been no mentions of readings
Ozone layer depletion: The threat mounts - Aug 16, 2007
The Daily Star,One example of ozone depletion is the annual ozone "hole" over Antarctica that has occurred during the Antarctic Spring since the early 1980s.
Q&A: Global Fight to Protect the Ozone Layer Celebrates 20 Years - Aug 11, 2007
Inter Press Service (subscription),As far as the ozone hole, it occurs seasonally and depends on the meteorological conditions in Antarctica. The colder the temperatures in the Antarctic,
EPA analyzes its proposed ozone rules - Aug 2, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full story NASA's AURA Satellite Peers Into Earth's Ozone Hole (December 8, 2005) -- NASA researchers, using data from the agency's AURA satellite,
Twisted Science - Aug 13, 2007
Hawaii Reporter,Such a program to minimize ozone uncertainties posed a threat to the environmentalists who had promoted ozone hole scare stories about skin cancers,
What would the world be like without humans? - Aug 18, 2007
CTV.ca,I've seen some of the biggest environmental disasters all over the world, ranging from the ozone hole in Antarctica, to Chernobyl, to the melting permafrost
One of the Three Biggest Boondoggles of the Century - Aug 22, 2007
The Conservative Voice,One can wonder how science has treated chemicals such as daminozide(“alar�/apples), and chlorofluorocarbons(ozone hole). Damnation by the uniformed public
Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for US Energy Policy - Aug 11, 2007
Japan Focus,1971) on energy efficiency potential in the US economy, the principal editor of Nuclear Wastelands, and the principal author of Mending the Ozone Hole.
A planet free of our touch - Aug 11, 2007
StarPhoenix,A science writer who has covered countless hotspots over the years, from the ozone hole over Antarctica to burning African rainforests, Weisman has long
Antarctic research - $4.5 mil in special projects - Aug 7, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,...that grow in sea-ice, the ecosystems of the Dry Valleys, understanding the Antarctic’s unique marine ecosystems and the Antarctic ozone hole.
Climate change bill takes aim at cars - Aug 10, 2007
North County Times,Darrell Steinberg, you can take your "climate change bill" and shove it into your ozone hole. By taking "aim" at personal vehicles, Steinberg risks becoming
A Feast of Bullshit and Spectacle: The Great American Media Mind Warp - Aug 9, 2007
Media Channel,The ozone hole will be so big we’ll all be pedaling teensy cars that come with iron lungs as standard equipment. Renunciation will become a status symbol.
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