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Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 08-23-2006 08:15 AM

Worldwide the ozone layer is thinning.... 2005 was One of the worst years on record........ the hole over the Antarctic is the size of Europe..... Already in New Zealand rates of electromagnetic exposure are self evident...... Cycle 24 maybe (and in fact is likely 2B) a lot stronger than 23....... and on and on and on and........

Ozone hole stable, say scientists
"Leading scientists in the United States say the hole in the ozone layer of the Earth's atmosphere above the Antarctic appears to have stopped widening"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5276994.stm

Ozone-Friendly Alternatives Intensify Global Warming
“These chemicals are trapped between treaties. The Montreal Protocol needs to immediately take responsibility, phase out these chemicals, and promote climate-friendly alternatives”
http://www.eia-international.org/cgi/ne ... 24&source=

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 09-12-2006 02:23 AM

Stratospheric ozone variation induced by the 11-year solar cycle
"Recent 22-year simulation using 3-D chemical transport model with reanalysis data"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2 ... 6711.shtml

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 09-14-2006 07:27 AM

Severe ozone depletion in the cold Arctic winter 2004–05
"During a flight of the M55 Geophysica into the Arctic polar vortex on 7 March 2005, ozone, halogen species, tracers and water vapor were measured. Up to 90% chlorine activation and up to 60% ozone loss were found above 14 km, reflecting the low temperatures and extensive PSC formation prevalent in the Arctic stratosphere over the 2004/05 winter"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2 ... 6945.shtml

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 09-25-2006 11:43 AM

Antarctic Ozone Hole Nears Record - UN Agency
"The ozone depletion started quite late, but when it started it came quite rapidly........It (the hole) has now risen to a level that has passed last year's, and is very close to, if not equal to, the ozone hole size of 2003, and also approaching the size of 2000"
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory ... /story.htm

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 09-30-2006 06:30 AM

Upper stratospheric winds major factor behind ozone depletion
"We will only be able to predict and understand the consequences of human activities if we study the entire system as a whole, and not just in parts"
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.a ... 26&sid=ENV

In praise of... the ozone layer
"perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... 44,00.html

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 10-03-2006 02:13 AM

Record ozone loss over Antarctic this year
"This year's extreme loss of ozone can be explained by the temperatures above Antarctica reaching the lowest recorded in the area since 1979"
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/article ... ICA-DC.XML

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 10-19-2006 07:12 PM

Antarctic ozone hole biggest on record, U.S. reports
"From September 21 to 30, the average area of the ozone hole was the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million square miles"
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlene ... rss&rpc=22

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 10-22-2006 07:08 AM

Near-real time delivery of GOME ozone profiles
http://www.knmi.nl/gome_fd/doc/373vandera.pdf

Solar Activity during solar cycle 23 monitored by GOME
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/UVSAT_mate ... sams99.pdf

Satellite Application Facility on Ozone and Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring
"EUMETSAT’s Satellite Application Facility on Ozone and Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (O3M SAF) is a part of the EUMETSAT’s Polar System (EPS) Ground Segment. The purpose of the O3M SAF is to produce a set of near real-time and offline products based on Metop data, together with dedicated validation services for the products. The near real-time products include GOME-2 total ozone, ozone profile and UV clear-sky fields. Offline products derived from GOME-2 data are total column amounts of ozone, NO2, BrO, ozone profile, aerosol index and optical depth, and offline UV fields. In addition, a total column ozone product is derived from HIRS/4 radiances. An important part of the O3M SAF activities has been the development of radiative transfer models and retrieval methods needed for the calculation of atmospheric products from GOME-2 and HIRS measurements. This paper describes the O3M SAF operational system and the status of the ozone and UV products"
http://earth.esa.int/workshops/atmos200 ... _final.pdf

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 11-07-2006 03:23 AM

Strong ozone production in urban plumes from Beijing, China
"......the highest reported value in open literature for China"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2 ... 7689.shtml

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 12-08-2006 07:47 PM

Arctic winter 2005: Implications for stratospheric ozone loss and climate change
"The Arctic polar vortex exhibited widespread regions of low temperatures during the winter of 2005, resulting in significant ozone depletion by chlorine and bromine species...... the coldest Arctic winters have become significantly colder, and hence are more conducive to ozone depletion by anthropogenic halogens"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2 ... 6731.shtml

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 12-26-2006 07:06 PM

Effects of the 11-year solar cycle on the Earth atmosphere revealed in ECMWF reanalyses
"Our results provide a support for the effects of the solar cycle on the troposphere through the convection that affects the phase change of water vapor in the tropical atmosphere as well as rather direct impacts on the tropical stratosphere ozone"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2 ... 8128.shtml

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 12-29-2006 10:08 AM

Low ozone levels raise burn risk
"The size of the hole in the ozone layer means the risk of burning and subsequent skin cancer is the highest in New Zealand in six years"
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/946494

tiffany · Post by **tiffany** » 12-29-2006 02:00 PM

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 01-16-2007 12:37 AM

Role of hydrogen sulfide in a Permian-Triassic boundary ozone collapse
"Therefore a large methane flux (possibly from methane clathrate destabilization, Siberian traps or hydrothermal vent complexes) combined with a large hydrogen sulfide oceanic flux is much more likely to lead to an ozone collapse than methane or hydrogen sulfide alone with implications to the Permian-Triassic boundary extinction 250 million years ago"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 8384.shtml

IvyQ · Post by **IvyQ** » 01-16-2007 06:02 AM

Janus232 wrote: Low ozone levels raise burn risk
"The size of the hole in the ozone layer means the risk of burning and subsequent skin cancer is the highest in New Zealand in six years"
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/946494

Up until a few years back I was able to set my plants out on my deck from late spring to early fall. They loved it out there. In the past few years their leaves seem to burn and I would immediately bring them in within a couple of hours. They don't like it out there anymore. Could low ozone levels be causing this, I wonder? BTW, the plants are ivy, a minuture fig tree, dracaena and another which I can't name right now, and they were placed on the south side. I kept my philadendrons in the house since they are less tolerate of the heat.