Study Finds Ozone Hole Repair Contributes To Global Warming, Sea Ice Melt

[bijou]

In 1985, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey found a giant hole in the ozone layer of Earth's atmosphere over the South Pole. This discovery prompted a largely successful international effort to ban CFCs, the chemicals largely responsible for man-made thinning of the ozone layer.

Unfortunately, a new analysis from Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) suggests that stopping ozone depletion may actually increase global warming and speed up sea level rise. This discovery pits two important environmental missions against each other, while highlighting the complexity of our effect on the planet.

SCAR's findings indicate that the extra radiation allowed through the atmosphere by the depleted ozone above Antarctica created wind patterns that cooled the eastern, more densely ice-covered, section of the continent. Those weather patterns partly protected Antarctic ice from the ravages of global warming.

Now, as the hole in the atmosphere heals, those wind patterns will shift, fully subjecting the Antarctic ice to the effects climate change. According to SCAR, that means a rise in sea levels up to 4.6 feet greater than earlier predictions.  ...

Environmentalists cause global warming.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I have opined in the past that efforts to push the environment in one direction would lead to unintended negative consequences.

I once wrote a "just suppose" where global warming did occur but places like the Sahara desert and the Arabian penisula were transformed into garden paradises from all the extra moisture in the air.

I daydreamed once about petroleum emissions rising into the atmosphere then coming back to earth in rain where they pooled underground to create fresh stocks of petroleum.

fact is: we just don't know enough about any of this

[Chris_]

Does this mean that we can get Freon-12 back for our A/C units and aerosol cans???

doc

[JohnnyReb]

OK so Al Gore is now selling feon credits huh?