July 3, 2016
QUICK HEALER:
Gaping hole in ozone layer shows amazing recovery, say scientists (Eva Botkin-Kowacki, JUNE 30, 2016, CS Monitor)
A gaping hole in the ozone layer has been opening up over Antarctica each spring for decades. And now there are signs that the slow process of healing has begun, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.Scientists credit this progress to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, an international treaty that phased out chemicals that eat away at the ozone layer, which shields our planet from deadly levels of radiation."The healing of the Antarctic stratospheric ozone level is the most significant environmental success story of the 20th century," Michael Newchurch, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville who was not part of the study, tells The Christian Science Monitor.
Gaia won't even notice the carbon age.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 3, 2016 9:24 AM