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Old 08-21-2007, 07:34 AM   #121
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I think the ozone issue is for the most part a success story. Though I seem to remember reading recently that there's a gets worse before it gets better side to it. I'll try and find the article.
I think this is the one I read Ken0042.
Discover magazine.
Thanks for the link. The summarizing paragraph is interesting:

In the last decade, global ozone levels have stabilized or increased only slightly. All the same, experts estimate it will take 50 to 70 years for Antarctic ozone levels to get anywhere near pre-1980 levels.

Which brings me back to my original question, couldn't these holes in the Ozone layer; which allow a whack of solar radiation into the atmoshere; also be a contributing factor in global warming? Isn't one of the most noticable forms of radiation we get from the sun in fact thermal radiation; ie heat.

Am I missing something here? Because to this ditch digger, it appears we have an obvious problem; and this problem has a solution- start producing ozone in the antarctic. For those of you who skipped the grade 8 science class where they made ozone, all you have to do is create a spark through the air, and 3 molecules of ozygen (O2) will fuse to become 2 molecules of ozone. (O3) Can't we set up some sort of large scale "bug zapper" like contraption, that will shoot sparks across the atmosphere? Heck, even make it solar powered and run it from October to March every year.

I just don't see why this issue hasn't been brought up; unless of course somebody can explain to me why a hole in the ozone layer could not be a contributing factor to global warming.
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