South Pole ozone hole shrinks to smallest size since its discovery

The ozone hole near the South Pole this year is the smallest since it was discovered, but it is more due to freakish Antarctic weather than efforts to cut down on pollution, NASAThis fall, the average hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer is 3.6 million square miles. That’s down from a peak of 10.3 million square miles in 2006.“That’s really good news,” NASA scientist Paul Newman said Tuesday. “That means more ozone over the hemisphere, less ultraviolet radiation at the surface.

The hole reaches its peak in September and October and disappears by late December until the next spring in the Southern Hemisphere.— the only U.N. treaty ratified by every country on Earth — banned many of the chlorine compounds used in refrigerants and aerosols. The ban resulted in a slightly smaller ozone hole in recent years, but this year’s dramatic shrinking isn’t from those efforts, Newman said.

Chlorine in the air needs cold temperatures in the stratosphere and clouds to convert into a form of the chemical that eats ozone, Newman said. The clouds go away when it warms up. But this September and October, the southern polar vortex — which, just like the northern one, is a swirl of cold high-speed winds around the pole — started to break down. At 12 miles high in the atmosphere, temperatures were 29 degrees warmer than average. Winds dropped from a normal 161 mph to about 67 mph, NASA reported.

This is something that happens on occasion, occurring in 1988 and 2002, but not this extreme, Newman said.

But it’s because it was too hot in Antarctica...

Does that mean we have more than 12 years to live? 🤪

But the carbon we added to the system? Still screwed

Always new it was exaggerated BS ...they don't know shi÷ about what's going on with the climate

lol the south pole... lol fear of 'ozone holes' lol lol

We stopped it!

Momento del disparo a civil dentro de condominio en Las Condes, esto duele, esto no puede estar psando ni seguir ocurriendo. Csm estoy angustiadisimo con todo lo que les relaté recién.

Thank you RealMiniAOC we did it!

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