Posted on 03/03/2009 1:09:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge
STOCKHOLM (AFP) – The ozone layer over Sweden was thicker in February than it has been in decades, just a year after the second-thinnest level was recorded, the Swedish meteorological institute SMHI said on Tuesday.
Measurements taken at SMHI's station in Norrkoeping, just south of Stockholm, showed the ozone layer was at its thickest in February since recordings there began in 1988, with a measurement of 426 Dobson units (DU).
At the Vindeln station in northern Sweden, where measurements began in 1991, a record high of 437 DU was recorded.
"We have to go as far back to the measurements taken in Uppsala between 1951 and 1966" to find levels that high, SMHI said in a statement.
There, the highest level for February was in 1957, when a value of 439 DU was recorded.
The circumpolar whirl over the Arctic -- a polar high pressure system formed of a distinct column of cold air that develops during the long polar night -- disappeared very quickly in mid-January, and the stratosphere warmed up quickly in the space of a few days, SMHI explained.
As a result, "the low temperatures that usually cause rapid depletion of the ozone layer did not take place," it said.
The ozone layer over Sweden usually reaches its thickest level during the spring, before thinning during the summer and reaching a minimum during the winter, according to SMHI.
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Global Varmints will go,, But But ..
Indonesian environmental activists carry a paper-made globe to celebrate the International Ozone Day in Jakarta, 2005.The ozone layer over Sweden was thicker in February than it has been in decades, just a year after the second-thinnest level was recorded, the Swedish meteorological institute SMHI said on Tuesday. (AFP/File/Jewel Samad)
OK, so this week would we say that is good or bad for “the planet”.
And even with all the cows and goats!
good or bad for “the planet”.
after reading this piece,, I hear ya..
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The circumpolar whirl over the Arctic — a polar high pressure system formed of a distinct column of cold air that develops during the long polar night — disappeared very quickly in mid-January, and the stratosphere warmed up quickly in the space of a few days, SMHI explained.
As a result, “the low temperatures that usually cause rapid depletion of the ozone layer did not take place,” it said.
Too little ozone, too much ozone; global warming, global cooling it does not matter. It is all the fault of capitalism, America, and of course George W. Bush.
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Nice. Now they can come out of their caves again.
Plus the fault of all of the other past Republican POTUS, with the exception of Lincoln, who the left believes might of secretly been a homosexual.
I would hazard a guess that the ozone layer is the thickest now (versus the “thinnest” just 12 months ago) should be ample evidence that Man has nothing to do with it. What has been reported is higher than usual cosmic radiation reaching Earth due to the quiescent state of the solar magnetic field. This ionizing radiation can create ozone just as well as solar ionizing radiation.
Exactly!
No, it is proof that man in general, and America in particular, was at fault. It only took Obama six weeks to trash the stock market and capitalism, but he already fixed the ozone hole. Not only that, but DC set a record for overnight cold last night; Obama fixed global warming.
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