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The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by gcey2k(m): 9:31pm On Mar 27, 2020
The ozone layer is healing, new study finds

It heralds a rare success in the reversal of environmental damage and shows that global action can make a difference

The ozone layer is continuing to heal and has the potential to fully recover, according to a new study.

A scientific paper, published in Nature, heralds a rare success in the reversal of environmental damage and shows that orchestrated global action can make a difference.

The ozone layer is a protective shield in the Earth’s stratosphere which absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching us from the sun.

Without the ozone layer it would be nearly impossible for anything to survive on the planet.

In the past, human use of substances – chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) – caused such life-threatening damage to the ozone layer that in 1987, an international treaty called the “Montreal Protocol” was adopted to ban them.


Antara Banerjee, a CIRES Visiting Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder who also works at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is lead author of the study.

She told The Independent: “We found signs of climate changes in the southern hemisphere, specifically in the air circulation patterns.

“The challenge was showing that these changing air circulation patterns were due to the shrinking ozone hole following the implementation of the Montreal Protocol.

“The jet stream in the southern hemisphere was gradually shifting towards the south pole in the last decades of the 20th century due to ozone depletion.

“Our study found that movement has stopped since 2000 and might even be reversing. The pause in movement began around the same time that the ozone hole started to recover.

“The emissions of ozone-depleting substances that were responsible for the ozone hole - the CFCs from spray cans and refrigerants – started to decline around 2000, thanks to the Montreal Protocol.”

She added: “It’s not just ozone that affects the jet stream – CO2 also has an effect. What we are seeing is that there is a ‘tug-of-war’ between ozone recovery, which pulls the jet stream one way (to the North), and rising CO2, which pulls the other way (to the South).

“We are seeing the pause in the shifting jet stream because these two forces are currently in balance. That might change in the future when ozone has fully recovered and CO2 carries on pushing it south.”

The impacts of this “pause” in shifting wind patterns varies, meaning parts of the world will be affected differently.

She said: “In Australia, for example, before 2000 in the ozone-depletion era, it was suggested that winters were drying because the jet stream was moving further south and taking rain-bearing storms away from that region. Those changes might now stabilise which could be good news for Australia.

“For other regions like South America, ozone-depletion had caused an expansion of the tropics and led to more rainfall. Bands of agricultural production widened which was good for them but might now stabilise. That has implications for their economies and food security.”

Overall, it is good news for the fight against climate change.

She added: “The second most important point of the study, which I would say is a very good finding, is further evidence that the ozone hole is shrinking and that is thanks to the Montreal Protocol.

“It shows that this international treaty has worked and we can reverse the damage that we’ve already done to our planet. That’s a lesson to us all that can hopefully be applied to our greenhouse gas emissions to tackle climate change.

“If we keep adhering to this protocol then the ozone hole is projected to recover – at different times, in different parts of the atmosphere. In some regions, we think it might happen in the next couple of decades and in others much later in the century.”

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/ozone-layer-healing-coronavirus-climate-sun-uv-rays-a9429341.html

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Re: The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by Enoch07: 9:34pm On Mar 27, 2020
we go injure d O3 once covik one nine birus leave us
Re: The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by Nbote(m): 9:43pm On Mar 27, 2020
Covid 19 is mother nature's only way of punishing mankind and healing itself at d same time
Re: The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by gcey2k(m): 1:24am On Mar 28, 2020
Nbote:
Covid 19 is mother nature's only way of punishing mankind and healing itself at d same time

Lolzzzz, interesting way to view it, but this healing process has been ongoing long before COVID-19.
Re: The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by Nbote(m): 7:10am On Mar 28, 2020
gcey2k:


Lolzzzz, interesting way to view it, but this healing process has been ongoing long before COVID-19.

Not really... With all d humans, companies and factories under lockdown, ozone layer dat has been depleting is now healing as vehicular and other machines emitting dangerous gases have been grounded. Basically every of man's activity dat has endangered nature is at a halt ryt now
Re: The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by Emu4life(m): 12:04pm On Mar 28, 2020
Some good news amid Corona tension . Lalasticlacla your attention is needed
Re: The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by Nobody: 4:42pm On Mar 29, 2020
Who is the virus?
Re: The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by kernniejay(m): 5:22pm On Mar 29, 2020
This is the first good news we are hearing since the past weeks of this corona imbroglio. Let this move to FP.
Re: The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by bmdmixer: 7:34am On Mar 30, 2020
it was sick b4? who took its temperature? abeg this hobo should hide, the planet has been around for generations even during wars n nuclear testing, e no shake, bunch of twitter scientists b looking for free funds shouting on their lungs talking crap, global warming my foot, coro or no coro d planet is self healing, we die n go others will come


the planet will still b here
Re: The Ozone Layer Is Healing, According To New Study by Blakjewelry(m): 8:11pm On Mar 30, 2020
Nbote:
Covid 19 is mother nature's only way of punishing mankind and healing itself at d same time
nope global actions lead to the decrease in the amount of harmful substances being released into the atmosphere but convid virus is sure nature way of crowd control

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