What proof is there, that a hole exists in the ozone layer????

Question

I was led to believe that there was 2 basic weather systems on the planet! 1. northern hemisphere, 2 southern hemisphere.
So how does all the polution end up over Antartica to burn a hole??

Answer 1

The pollution does not cause it. The ozone layer is created when the solar winds collide with the earth's magnetic field. This happens very high up and has nothing to do with man made pollution.

Answer 2

The polar winter leads to the formation of the polar vortex which isolates the air within it.

Cold temperatures form inside the vortex; cold enough for the formation of Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs). As the vortex air is isolated, the cold temperatures and the PSCs persist.

Once the PSCs form, heterogeneous reactions take place and convert the inactive chlorine and bromine reservoirs to more active forms of chlorine and bromine.

No ozone loss occurs until sunlight returns to the air inside the polar vortex and allows the production of active chlorine and initiates the catalytic ozone destruction cycles. Ozone loss is rapid. The ozone hole currently covers a geographic region a little bigger than Antarctica and extends nearly 10km in altitude in the lower stratosphere.

Try here for a more in depth idea of the causes of the ozone depletion occurring over the polar regions
http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/index.html

Answer 3

There is definitive proof that there is a hole in the ozone layer. its visible under special type photography from space.

What is not definite is WHEN it formed or what its size should be (if its always been there)

Ozone is an ionic gas, subject to the influence of a magnetic field. It is attracted to the earth's magnetic north. Therefore it may be NORMAL and NATURAL for there to be a hole in the Ozone near the south pole which inherently repels the ionic gas.

People who use a few years of decent data to try to explain something that may be a cycle naturally taking thousands or millions of years aren't scientists... they are witch doctors.

Answer 4

Well the great stork always faces north so when it flaps it's wings all the pollution goes south.


Try Google type in ozone hole.

Answer 5

its not actually a hole but reduction in th ozone concentration.
certain substance react with ozone present in the stratosphere
and destroy the same , these r called ODS ( ozone depleting substance ) .
the major ODS are CFCs, halos, CH4 , Cl
both halos & CFCs produce active chlorine in the present of U.V. radiations.

Answer 6

Both poles, North and South.