Do you guys believe the whole "hole in the ozone layer" thing?

Question

How do scientists even know there is an ozone layer? I know they didn't see it.

Answer 1

The "paid for an opinion" scientist say it's there, Al Gore says it's there (with tiper's approval) .... so those that can not think for themselves blindlessly tags along. Sort of like cattle to the processing center.

Answer 2

Yes there is a hole. Originally ozone was discovered and monitored with high altitude weather balloons, now it is monitored from equipment on satellites.

We only discovered the ozone layer less than 100 years ago. It's only been the past 40-50 years that we've been able to monitor it on a global scale. We have no idea if holes occur often, what the median level of ozone is, how much it fluctuates or how long the fluctuation cycle is.

We do know how to detect it and that it is created from the interaction of UV light and oxygen. Given that, the less ozone, the more UV light penetrates the atmosphere, the more ozone is made. This cycle depends more on the fluctuation of the sun's output than the amount of CFC's we put into the air.

The notion that WE are destroying the ozone layer is based on junk science and ignorance. We are not God, it isn't that easy to change the Earth.

Answer 3

There has always been a hole in the northern and southern polar areas they are a reaction of The magnetic flux of the Earth's Gravity. They grow and shrink all the time. The Ozone layer is very thin many times just only a fraction of an inch and occasional a little over an inch. The claim that freon or chlorofluorocarbons destroy ozone in the atmosphere is questionable at best, for ozone is lighter than helium and floats upwards and "freon" is heavy and sinks. So how does "freon" get up into the upper atmosphere to destroy the ozone ?

Answer 4

One example of ozone depletion is the annual ozone "hole" over Antarctica that has occurred during the Antarctic Spring since the early 1980s. Rather than being a literal hole through the layer, the ozone hole is a large area of the stratosphere with extremely low amounts of ozone. Ozone levels fall by over 60% during the worst years.

In addition, research has shown that ozone depletion occurs over the latitudes that include North America, Europe, Asia, and much of Africa, Australia, and South America. Over the U.S., ozone levels have fallen 5-10%, depending on the season. Thus, ozone depletion is a global issue and not just a problem at the South Pole.

The ozone hole is a well-defined, large-scale destruction of the ozone layer over Antarctica that occurs each Antarctic spring. The word "hole" is a misnomer; the hole is really a significant thinning, or reduction in ozone concentrations, which results in the destruction of up to 70% of the ozone normally found over Antarctica.

The science of the ozone hole is quite complex, but our understanding of the many factors that combine to create it has improved greatly since the first investigations in the 1980s. Unlike global ozone depletion, the ozone hole occurs only over Antarctica. Using several instruments on satellites, planes, and balloons, scientists have produced detailed graphs of the size of the ozone hole.

Two international organizations issue regular bulletins about the ozone hole as it develops each year: the British Antarctic Survey and the World Meteorological Organization. The BAS site also explains why the ozone hole didn't occur in 1956, despite a widespread myth that it did. The University of Cambridge's Ozone Hole Tour provides detailed explanations, with graphics, of the ozone hole and its history.

http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/hole/index.html

Answer 5

wow....did you really say "I know they didn't see it?"

Ozone is a gas so of course they can't see it. However, scientists have studied our atmosphere and found it to be layered. When they use Ultraviolet-sensing equipment, they can see that a lot of UV rays are being deflected by a layer of the atmosphere. This layer is made of primarily Ozone gas, among other things. Ozone is a variant of Oxygen, so it isn't visible to the naked eye.
As for the hole, they noticed an area over Antarctica that was getting unshielded hits by UV radiation. They mapped the Ozone layer using Radar, Spectrographs, and other tools and found a massive hole in the layer of Ozone.

So it isn't about "believing", because the Ozone layer is definitely real, as real as the invisible air you breathe. And there is definitely a hole in it over Antarctica.



Oh and if Dwight D is religious, then he should definitely know what being cattle is like. "Payed for by Al Gore"...such ignorance. It's sad, really. I hope he has fun getting Skin Cancer.

Answer 6

Yes...you can SEE the hole from space. Ozone is simply 3 oxygen molecules bonded together instead of 2. ( 2 molecules of oxygen make up the oxygen we breathe in the air). The ozone layer is a layer in the stratosphere made of these 3 bonded oxygens. Ozone protects us from many radioactive waves that come from space and the sun. Carbon emissions and pollutants have caused the hole to grow larger over the years. The hole is over Antarctica.

Answer 7

Sure thing. It is real and it is a very big deal. Ozone absorbs most of the ultraviolet light coming from the sun and therefore allows life on land to exist. A little ultraviolet light causes a sunburn. A lot of ultraviolet light causes death. No ozone = no life on land. Chlorine reacts with ozone and destroys it. Chlorine comes from halo-carbons used to run refrigerators and is responsible. Fortunately we have stopped using halo-carbons and the ozone layer is starting to rebuild. The international treaty that outlawed halo-carbons is probably the most important environmental step we have taken yet and is a great model for how to deal with greenhouse gasses and global warming, which is also real by the way.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Actually there are two.

Given the mechanism that creates ozone, the Sun, I would be more concerned if there was none.

If you really question the scientific community, and forget about
listening to organizations like green peace, you would find out
that these holes expand and contract with the seasons.
Therefore when it is winter in the northern henisphere
the hole is larger then in the summer.

Look at a globe. See for yourself.

Answer 10

The oxygen we breath is O2. Ozone is a layer of O3 that is high in the upper atmosphere. It can be seen by comparing spectromiter readings. Currently the hole is located above Australia and is causing an increase in skin cancer there.

Answer 11

According to the wiki, an instrument called a "spectrophotometer" measured ozone in the atmosphere as early as 1928 invented by G. M.B. Dobson... He built stations to measure it and even got the unit for ozone concentration named after him. It's pretty interesting stuff!

Even though we can't see it directly, its effects are apparent even without the spectrophotometer.Subnburn and skin cancer rates are increasing rapidly throughout the world due to the lessening UV block power of the ozone layer. Luckily this is one of the environmental problems the U.S. has combatted somewhat successfully!