Quote:Measurements from satellites this year showed the hole in Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September was the smallest observed since 1988, scientists from NASA and NOAA announced today.

According to NASA, the ozone hole reached its peak extent on Sept. 11, covering an area about two and a half times the size of the United States – 7.6 million square miles in extent - and then declined through the remainder of September and into October. NOAA ground- and balloon-based measurements also showed the least amount of ozone depletion above the continent during the peak of the ozone depletion cycle since 1988. NOAA and NASA collaborate to monitor the growth and recovery of the ozone hole every year.

“The Antarctic ozone hole was exceptionally weak this year,” said Paul A. Newman, chief scientist for Earth Sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “This is what we would expect to see given the weather conditions in the Antarctic stratosphere.”

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/201...since-1988

#winning

but but but but but......MUH BILL NYE!

(11-02-2017 02:59 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  but but but but but......MUH BILL NYE!

Truly a respectable counter argument against tens of thousands of different studies done over the past >100 years which all point to the same conclusion.

This is a good thing but we need it to get to even lower levels than this.

(11-02-2017 03:22 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(11-02-2017 02:59 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  but but but but but......MUH BILL NYE!

Truly a respectable counter argument against tens of thousands of different studies done over the past >100 years which all point to the same conclusion.

BUT MUH FAKE MANIPULATED DATA GENERATED BY ENTITIES VYING FOR A MONEY GRAB!

Oh hell, here it comes. A new ice age scare. Lol

(11-02-2017 05:52 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Oh hell, here it comes. A new ice age scare. Lol

Time to spend a trillion dollars to pump that ash into the atmosphere.

(11-02-2017 03:22 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(11-02-2017 02:59 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  but but but but but......MUH BILL NYE!

Truly a respectable counter argument against tens of thousands of different studies done over the past >100 years which all point to the same conclusion.

A counter argument to what? That the hole in the ozone is bigger than this report states? ALL it states is that the hole in Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September was the smallest observed since 1988. Are you saying that scientists at NASA and NOAA are lying? For such an erudite individual your reading comprehension seems a little off.

don't forget about this one too.....

...or this gem...

Quote:Apocalypse Cow — Obama EPA To Regulate Bovine Emissions

Regulation: The White House has released a Climate Action Plan that includes the targeting of methane emissions from cows and other barnyard animals that threaten the planet through belching and other, er, activities.

It's our lust for cheeseburgers that's dooming the planet through climate change, the Obama administration said in a Climate Action Plan released Friday that seeks to save us all from ruminant livestock.

Having already blamed the Industrial Revolution for what we used to call weather and temperatures that have flat-lined for 15 years, the White House is now targeting American agriculture abundance by slashing methane emissions from cows by 25% by 2020.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the "special digestive systems" of "ruminant livestock" such as cattle, sheep, buffalo, and goats produce methane, a more potent "greenhouse gas" than even the carbon dioxide we humans exhale or the exhaust from the SUVs we use to take the kids to soccer practice.

The EPA says "cattle emit about 5.5 million metric tons of methane per year into the atmosphere, accounting for 20% of U.S. methane emissions." Such ravaging of the planet from cow belching and flatulence must be stopped, says the EPA.

Cow Flatulence: Sum Of All Fears

(11-02-2017 10:26 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  ...or this gem...

Quote:Apocalypse Cow — Obama EPA To Regulate Bovine Emissions

Regulation: The White House has released a Climate Action Plan that includes the targeting of methane emissions from cows and other barnyard animals that threaten the planet through belching and other, er, activities.

It's our lust for cheeseburgers that's dooming the planet through climate change, the Obama administration said in a Climate Action Plan released Friday that seeks to save us all from ruminant livestock.

Having already blamed the Industrial Revolution for what we used to call weather and temperatures that have flat-lined for 15 years, the White House is now targeting American agriculture abundance by slashing methane emissions from cows by 25% by 2020.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the "special digestive systems" of "ruminant livestock" such as cattle, sheep, buffalo, and goats produce methane, a more potent "greenhouse gas" than even the carbon dioxide we humans exhale or the exhaust from the SUVs we use to take the kids to soccer practice.

The EPA says "cattle emit about 5.5 million metric tons of methane per year into the atmosphere, accounting for 20% of U.S. methane emissions." Such ravaging of the planet from cow belching and flatulence must be stopped, says the EPA.

Cow Flatulence: Sum Of All Fears

lmao.....that dayum methane and 2B more fleshie growth in 50 yrs......30% human growth over that time frame has to fart more than the cows same percentage growth in grade A edible beef....

how in the hell is that measurable.....they didn't test my arse.....

Meanwhile the Trump Administration released a climate change report today calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming.

The report affirms that climate change is driven almost entirely by human action, warns of potential sea-level rise as high as eight feet by the year 2100, and details climate-related damage across the United States that is already unfolding as a result of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit of global warming since 1900.

“It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century,” the document reports. “For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence.”

To the surprise of some scientists, the White House did not seek to prevent the release of the government’s National Climate Assessment, which is mandated by law.

All I've heard my whole life is that I have caused an expanding hole. Unbelievable weight lifted off my shoulders.

Great, the resale value of my tiny carbon footprint home just got lower.