Comments on: Ozone hole over South Pole growing

NASA and NOAA scientists report record changes in width and thickness.
Satellite spots growing ozone hole

[gernblan]

It's cyclical.

No worries.

[stevenmcs]

no cycle

There is no cycle. We started using substances like freon that are hydro halides and it started destroying the ozone, which we need. So we started ploicies to stop using the harmfull chemicals.
I read that the increase was smaller than in the past. That means it's getting bigger but there is an improvment. It's like your going 60 mi/hr but you want to go in revese first you have to slow down to 0 mi/hr.

[mgss0lidsnak3]

So much for it getting smaller

I did a report on this about a year back for one of my classes. I believe I touched basis on the massive hole residing over Antartica and if I'm not mistaken, I believe I found information by NASA stating that the hole in the Ozone was growing smaller, however, according to the sattelite footage I was watching from NASA, it seems that it just moved away to other areas and then right back to the South Pole where it grew larger.

The fact of the matter is this: No ozone, no protection. No protection, we're screwed. If the earth heats up, so do the oceans. There does happen to be nice pockets of frozen Hydrogen (atomic symbol: H) sitting right at the bottom of the Ocean. Frankly, I would prefer it to stay there.

[stevenmcs]

The increase was smaller

I don't know if you read the same thing I did but it said that the increase was smaller than in the past. That means it's getting bigger but there is an improvment. It's like your going 60 mi/hr but you want to go in revese first you have to slow down to 0 mi/hr.

[R K K9684]

What lol

I have to say i hope your a school kid because this is the most retarded thing i have ever heard, solid hydrogen at bottom of ocean? you mean the same hydrogen with a melting point of -259.14°C just over 14 K.

[lingsun]

So what? It's a meaningless concern over nothing

Ozone is O3 oxygen instead of O2. It's created by sunlight. I'm sure there's been an ozone hole over Antartica every antarctic winter for a billion years. It's really not a problem. It's not news. It's just another example of radical environmental hysteria.

[Mr. Dogers2U]

It gets more interesting . . .

Correct is is created by sunlight, and with the temperature of the
stratosphere the half life of ozone is about 4 days! With so little
light at the south pole much of the year it is amazing there ever
was a lasting ozone layer there. After 30 days of simple decay of
this unstable molecule you are left with less than 1% of it's original
concentration.

[thedreaming]

The Ozone Hole

Since the whole was spotted, scientists have been keeping an eye on it. You would think that once we spotted the thing that we would add 2 and 2 together and exclaim, "Oh F**K, We did that?!" but we didn't. We played the blame game and pointed the finger at everything but ourselves. We made that whole collectively and only together can we get rid of it.