Enormous Hole in the Ozone Appears Above Arctic in Rare Atmospheric Phenomenon

[Sunsettommy]

Enormous Hole in the Ozone Appears Above Arctic in Rare Atmospheric Phenomenon

By Hannah Osborne On 3/30/20

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huge hole in the ozone layer has appeared above the Arctic in a rare atmospheric phenomenon. Freezing temperatures have caused ozone levels to plummet, leaving a hole stretching from Hudson Bay to Russia's northern Arctic islands.

Images from NASA's Arctic Ozone Watch show how the hole has been growing since the start of March, with ozone levels dropping significantly. Blue and purple colors show where there is the least amount of ozone, while reds and yellows indicate where levels are higher.

Ozone is a gas made of three oxygen atoms. It is created naturally in the stratosphere, a layer of Earth's atmosphere that sits between seven and 25 miles above the surface of the planet. Ultraviolet rays from the sun break oxygen molecules into atoms. It is highly reactive and acts as a shield, protecting life on Earth from harmful UV rays.

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It can't be the CFC's since they have been a non factor for many years.

Did CO2 suddenly learn to break up O3? after all I was told it is an awesome molecule that can cure warts, impotence, Zits, low IQ, low sperm count, obesity, it can do almost anything, even start fires, what an awesome molecule!

Does anyone know if there is CO2 insurance?

 

[idb]

There's an enormous hole in your trolling efforts.

 

[Sunsettommy]

There's an enormous hole in your trolling efforts.

Do you have anything to say about the TOPIC?

By the way YOU are off topic

Snicker.....

 

[Fed Starving]

Blame all those 5G satellites they launched into orbit the other day.

 

[SSDD]

Ozone is a gas made of three oxygen atoms. It is created naturally in the stratosphere, a layer of Earth's atmosphere that sits between seven and 25 miles above the surface of the planet. Ultraviolet rays from the sun break oxygen molecules into atoms. It is highly reactive and acts as a shield, protecting life on Earth from harmful UV rays.

Your description is good up til the last sentence. It takes far more energy to break an O2 molecule than it does to break an O3 molecule. You are correct that O3 is very reactive. That is because it is so unstable. In the ozone layer, the lifetime of an ozone molecule is between 55 and 70 minutes.

Because an O2 molecule requires so much more energy to break than an O3 molecule, the bulk of the incoming UV energy from the sun is used up breaking O2 molecules into O molecules which then nearly immediately reform into O2 molecules or O3 molecules. O3 absorbs some incoming UV, but because it is so unstable and breaks apart so easily, it plays a minor part in protecting us from high energy UV coming in from the sun. Because most of the high energy UV coming in from the sun is expended breaking O2, it is O2 that really saves us from burning up. O3 is the result of high energy UV being expended breaking O2 molecules...it isn't the reason we don't burn up under the UV coming in from the sun.

The most probable reason for the hole forming over the Arctic is the reduction in specific wavelengths of energy responsible for the formation of O3 coming in from the sun as a result of the sun going into a minimum phase.

 

[SSDD]

Did CO2 suddenly learn to break up O3? after all I was told it is an awesome molecule that can cure warts, impotence, Zits, low IQ, low sperm count, obesity, it can do almost anything, even start fires, what an awesome molecule!

I thought the climate crazies said that CO2 could cause warts, impotence, zits, low IQ, low sperm count and obesity. I thought the only way to appease gaia and reverse those conditions was to give up our freedom, hand over control of everything to the UN and become serfs.

 

[Fed Starving]

Blame all those 5G satellites they launched into orbit the other day.

Funny thing sighters are reporting "UFO armadas" which are actually these 5G satellites that launch in a long line of dozens at a time.