Back in 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1375089.stm
Actually Mr Bush has involved the American public in climate change since he started to believe that it is actually happening and that some factors are down to some of what we're doing. And he's given out more general information about what people can be doing about it than we've been given over here.
The president commissioned a report from the National Academy of Sciences which is a private company which works with the US government. The Academy found that evidence pointed to the fact that there was a very good chance that climate change is happening at the moment in tandem with and as a result of human activity.
There are difficulties I suppose in that it is difficult to know what the weather would be like without all the carbon in the atmosphere and other global problems like the hole in the ozone layer.
(which is still there by the way and not getting smaller in any seemingly permanent way despite it looking as if it might have been shrinking for a year). The change could have been due to different wind patterns as the winds carry ozone.
Reports from a few hours ago
When reading these articles it is worth remembering that these gases take years to reach the ozone layer and that is why there aren't immediate results from banning them.
http://news.com.com/2061-11204_3-6090340.html
http://www.ens-newswire.com/
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2006/2006-06-30-05.asp
Slightly off topic ... but ... awww ... look
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2006/2006-06-26-02.asp
It is strange to read that there is a new though smaller hole appearing over the Artic too because I read a couple of months ago that the ozone layer was improving everywhere around the planet apart from over the Antartic.
I suppose it is possible that there is some kind of difference at the two poles which appears to be halting the improvement that was seen elsewhere at lower latitudes.
The hole in the ozone layer
http://www.dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/air/ozonlayr.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sci_tech/newsid_2266000/2266608.stm
What will happen to the hole in the ozone layer should be easier to predict, though there will be more variables now due to climate change and differences in the winds etc, than what is going to happen due to climate change overall.
Surprizes are happening all the time, though some changes and effects are becoming more noticeable now.
Actually Mr Bush has involved the American public in climate change since he started to believe that it is actually happening and that some factors are down to some of what we're doing. And he's given out more general information about what people can be doing about it than we've been given over here.
The president commissioned a report from the National Academy of Sciences which is a private company which works with the US government. The Academy found that evidence pointed to the fact that there was a very good chance that climate change is happening at the moment in tandem with and as a result of human activity.
There are difficulties I suppose in that it is difficult to know what the weather would be like without all the carbon in the atmosphere and other global problems like the hole in the ozone layer.
(which is still there by the way and not getting smaller in any seemingly permanent way despite it looking as if it might have been shrinking for a year). The change could have been due to different wind patterns as the winds carry ozone.
Reports from a few hours ago
When reading these articles it is worth remembering that these gases take years to reach the ozone layer and that is why there aren't immediate results from banning them.
http://news.com.com/2061-11204_3-6090340.html
http://www.ens-newswire.com/
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2006/2006-06-30-05.asp
Slightly off topic ... but ... awww ... look
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2006/2006-06-26-02.asp
It is strange to read that there is a new though smaller hole appearing over the Artic too because I read a couple of months ago that the ozone layer was improving everywhere around the planet apart from over the Antartic.
I suppose it is possible that there is some kind of difference at the two poles which appears to be halting the improvement that was seen elsewhere at lower latitudes.
The hole in the ozone layer
http://www.dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/air/ozonlayr.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sci_tech/newsid_2266000/2266608.stm
What will happen to the hole in the ozone layer should be easier to predict, though there will be more variables now due to climate change and differences in the winds etc, than what is going to happen due to climate change overall.
Surprizes are happening all the time, though some changes and effects are becoming more noticeable now.
posted by Zeb at 2:17 PM
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