Re: [pf]Lots of photos: Antarctic ozone thinning fast

>At 21:46 30/8/2000 -0700, Kaleopono sent on:
>>Environment News Service, Aug 29, 2000.
>>ANTARCTIC OZONE LAYER THINNING FAST
>> ...

At 13:44 3/9/2000 -0700, I (David Mac) wrote:
>**  It's the ozone that's disappearing fast. It's a worry for us here 
>in New Zealand - we've already got a much higher skin-cancer incidence 
>than we used-to before CFCs (ChloroFluoroCarbons) were released ... 
> {I now, September 19, add: I've had 3 basal-cell carcinomas taken out of
my back and temple skin. Those are the hardly-metastasizing-at-all type.}
>
>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug2000/2000L-08-29-02.html
>  is:
>
>Thinning Antarctic Ozone Layer Alarms Researchers
>
> NEW YORK, New York, August 29, 2000 (ENS) - New measurements released
>today by the United Nations show the ozone layer over Antarctica is
>disappearing much more quickly than scientists had predicted. 
>
> The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) today reported that its
>latest satellite observations of the sunlit portion of Antarctica show an
>average decrease of about 30 percent in the total amount of ozone. 
>
> "This is an alarming rate of decrease," WMO spokesman Taysir Al-Ghanem
>said. "It is double the amount we had observed two weeks ago, and this
>could lead to a much greater ozone hole," he warned. 
>

** Now, weeks later, the Antarctic ozone hole is most impressive, scary even.

**  I've put 29 daily images (each 16 kB; total about half a MB - large) on:

http://davd.tripod.com/OzoneHole2000.html#top . Each is dated.

**  They are produced by NOAA, and the (larger) originals are available
through:

ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/eptoms/images/spole/y2000/

**  If you have an image-processing app like LViewPro which lets you see
them as a slide-show, you may wish to download them onto your own machine
then view them quickly in sequence. Below are the 29 separate URLs, for use
with Vampire or some other multiple file collecting application.

http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000821.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000822.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000823.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000824.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000825.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000826.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000827.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000828.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000829.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000830.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000831.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000901.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000902.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000903.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000904.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000905.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000906.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000907.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000908.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000909.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000910.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000911.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000912.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000913.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000914.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000915.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000916.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000917.gif , 
http://davd.tripod.com/images/OzoneHole-es000918.gif

**  If you have a slow or costly connection, only look at a selection, say
every 5th one.

**  The white circle in the middle, diminishing with date, is the yet-unlit
part of Antarctica, near the Pole. Their cameras have no light to use, from
that area.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.emucities.com.au/member/davd/index.html#top
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