''Hole in the Ozone Layer''?

coolhull

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)

El Guapo!

Polyfiller.
Great stuff altogether.

galwayrush

The Jet streams managed to fill it over the years.

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

OneArt

Ozone smells horrible anyway.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

mikemac1

Rabies wrote: »

Thanks to Captain Planet

Legend

Sorts out the trouble with the nordies too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw

Been posted on boards before but not in a long while

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.

TheUsual

mikemac1 wrote: »

Sorts out the trouble with the nordies too

He must have missed Willie Frazer on his last visit.

Sunnyisland

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

Where To

A lot of amateur scientists on boards this evening.

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

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

L.Jenkins

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

Cienciano

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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:

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

KyussBishop

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

OneArt

Cienciano wrote: »

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

Madonna...

Pottler

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

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.

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

TheUsual

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30733/whatever-happened-hole-ozone-layer

Right so, global warming or skin cancer ?

Decisions Decisions.

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]

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.

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