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''Hole in the Ozone Layer''?

  • 27-01-2013 8:40pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49,731 ✭✭✭✭


    What happened to ''the hole in the ozone layer?'' About 10 years ago, it was a big topic of conversation.
    Now it's never mentioned. Did someone fill it in?
    And will so-called 'climate change' and 'carbon footprints' cease to worry us ?
    (Not that they ever bothered me)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Polyfiller.
    Great stuff altogether.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    The Jet streams managed to fill it over the years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Was longer then 10 years ago OP

    Ozone layer finished in the news by the nineties

    Global warming took over but that's gone too

    Nowadays it's climate change

    There will be a new buzz word soon enough ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Ozone smells horrible anyway.


  • Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The hole is still there but should be gone in half a century or so. It's not mentioned much because it's been solved, CFCs aren't around any more.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    It's still there but it's preferred not to talk about as it might sound a little smutty and thus offensive to some. Like the way they now say "Uruhnus" instead of "Uraynus" on the BBC.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Scientists discovered that it was caused by hair-spray and the thousands of heavy metal bands in USA and Europe (geddit).
    Since these bands are now gone, the ozone layer is saved.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    The ozone layer has been repaired thanks to the banning of CFC's as a refrigerant and in aerosols. It was a rare successful global environmental campaign that has completely reversed what could have been a major health and geological disaster. It's just goes to show that we can act if we want to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    TheUsual wrote: »
    Scientists discovered that it was caused by hair-spray and the thousands of heavy metal bands in USA and Europe (geddit).
    Since these bands are now gone, the ozone layer is saved.

    Thanks to Captain Planet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,124 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    There was never an actual hole in the ozone layer, it's just a silly term to describe the depletion of ozone in certain parts of the stratosphere.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Rabies wrote: »
    Thanks to Captain Planet

    Legend

    Sorts out the trouble with the nordies too



    Been posted on boards before but not in a long while


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Rabies wrote: »
    Thanks to Captain Planet

    He's not real. Sorry to be the one to tell you.
    Same goes for Superman and Batman.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Sorts out the trouble with the nordies too

    He must have missed Willie Frazer on his last visit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    The whole in the sky is fixed so now we have to fix the hole in the economy :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    A lot of amateur scientists on boards this evening.

    Don't give up the day jobs people, it's still there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Where To wrote: »
    A lot of amateur scientists on boards this evening.

    Don't give up the day jobs people, it's still there.

    "We haven't gone away, you know."

    -chilling statement from the Real CFC's


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Council finally got around to filling with a bit of gravel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,118 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    There's always something the media wants us worried about. Sars, bird flu, o-zone, millennium bug, mad cow disease.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Where To wrote: »
    A lot of amateur scientists on boards this evening.

    Don't give up the day jobs people, it's still there.
    What is? And fair fecks to you squeezing in professional scientism between shifts. Although it is a well known fact that Taximen know everything about everything. Before Google, I used to have to call a mini-cab whenever I was stuck for info on somthing. It got crazy expensive after a while. I did 7 laps of the block trying to find out the capital of Peru once. The fecker kept babbling on about "foreidgners" whatever they are.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Pottler wrote: »
    What is? And fair fecks to you squeezing in professional scientism between shifts. Although it is a well known fact that Taximen know everything about everything. Before Google, I used to have to call a mini-cab whenever I was stuck for info on somthing. It got crazy expensive after a while. I did 7 laps of the block trying to find out the capital of Peru once. The fecker kept babbling on about "foreidgners" whatever they are.
    Next time you are stuck for the capital of Peru, just think of llamas and you'll have it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,812 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    ever wonder why we get so much rain in the summer ?

    or why there are so many catostrophic natural disasters in recent years - Mother nature reaction to mistreatment


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Where To wrote: »
    Next time you are stuck for the capital of Peru, just think of llamas and you'll have it.
    Las Palmas?? No, wait, Bahamas. Jasus, no, llamas.... Camel?? Ah, feck it. Sure I'm getting a pain in me ozone layer trying to get that one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    thebaz wrote: »
    ever wonder why we get so much rain in the summer ?

    or why there are so many catostrophic natural disasters in recent years - Mother nature reaction to mistreatment
    So mother nature is the cause of it because she is angry with us :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    sink wrote: »
    The ozone layer has been repaired thanks to the banning of CFC's as a refrigerant and in aerosols. It was a rare successful global environmental campaign that has completely reversed what could have been a major health and geological disaster. It's just goes to show that we can act if we want to.

    Dat HFC is some good sh1t :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    It's still about OP; people try to forget about it, but some things just don't go away unfortunately.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Cienciano wrote: »
    There's always something the media wants us worried about. Sars, bird flu, o-zone, millennium bug, mad cow disease.

    Madonna...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Too true, I'm currently worrying if I've got enough milk in the fridge after watching that ravishing TV ad for Horlicks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49,731 ✭✭✭✭coolhull


    thebaz wrote: »
    ever wonder why we get so much rain in the summer ?

    or why there are so many catostrophic natural disasters in recent years - Mother nature reaction to mistreatment
    But when was there ever a year without a natural disaster somewhere?
    Records only go back a hundred years or so. For all we know, Australia, Asia South America (or indeed Ireland) were probably battling floods, heatwaves, and tsunami for thousands of years.
    I think we're flattering ourselves if we think that mankind can influence the Earth's natural cycles.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://mentalfloss.com/article/30733/whatever-happened-hole-ozone-layer
    Oddly enough, the depleted ozone layer did have one positive side effect: It helped curb global warming


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual




    Right so, global warming or skin cancer ?

    Decisions Decisions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,562 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    it's still not fixed and remains a major issue down this end of the world in Aus and NZ (and Antartica) where it remains thinner than elsewhere. As such skin cancer occurs way above average.

    it's also getting worse again:
    On March 15, 2011, a record ozone layer loss was observed, with about half of the ozone present over the Arctic having been destroyed.[74][75][76][77] The change was attributed to increasingly cold winters in the Arctic stratosphere at an altitude of approximately 20 km (12 mi), a change associated with global warming in a relationship that is still under investigation.[78] By March 25, the ozone loss had become the largest compared to that observed in all previous winters with the possibility that it would become an ozone hole.[79] This would require that the quantities of ozone to fall below 200 Dobson units, from the 250 recorded over central Siberia.[79] It is predicted that the thinning layer would affect parts of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe on March 30–31.[79]

    On 2 October 2011, a study was published in the journal Nature, which said that between December 2010 and March 2011 up to 80% of the ozone in the atmosphere at about 20 kilometres (12 mi) above the surface was destroyed.[80] The level of ozone depletion was severe enough that scientists said it could be compared to the ozone hole that forms over Antarctica every winter.[80] According to the study, "for the first time, sufficient loss occurred to reasonably be described as an Arctic ozone hole."[80] The study analyzed data from the Aura and CALIPSO satellites, and determined that the larger-than-normal ozone loss was due to an unusually long period of cold weather in the Arctic, some 30 days more than typical, which allowed for more ozone-destroying chlorine compounds to be created.[81] According to Lamont Poole, a co-author of the study, cloud and aerosol particles on which the chlorine compounds are found "were abundant in the Arctic until mid March 2011—much later than usual—with average amounts at some altitudes similar to those observed in the Antarctic, and dramatically larger than the near-zero values seen in March in most Arctic winters".[81]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭HTML5!


    It's iPhone's, Facebook etc. nowadays.

    The ozone layer isn't getting a look-in.

    Someone just needs to upload a picture of it on instagram and it'll be cool again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,812 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    So mother nature is the cause of it because she is angry with us :rolleyes:

    pretty much - like your body , keep feeding it **** and toxins, and eventually it will fail


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