AN OPEN & SHUT CASE FOR THE LARGEST ARCTIC OZONE HOLE EVER FOUND?

Climate Scientist Shares Insight & Science Behind the Recent Phenomenon & What It Means for the Future

Early this spring, scientists discovered a massive hole in the ozone layer over the North Pole. The largest ever detected in history, the hole covered an area three times the size of Greenland! After being open for nearly a month, the hole slammed shut. Now people across the globe are speculating why this happened and what implications it has for the future.

Did the global Coronavirus lockdown play a role in healing the ozone?

Will this change temperatures this summer?

Will the ozone hole reopen?

According to climate scientist Dr. Peter L Ward, the COVID-19 lock-down did not play a part, unlike the many reports.

“This winter, we set all-time temperature and ozone depletion records by a wide margin and these extraordinary atmospheric phenomena could be related…”

…says Dr. Ward, Chief Scientist at Science Is Never Settled Inc. A 27-year veteran of the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Ward has been studying the relationship between ozone levels and global temperatures for more than a decade.

The relationship between ozone depletion and increasing temperature is complicated by the observation that ozone accumulates in polar regions during winter. It is during this yearly peak in ozone that depletion is observed to occur and that confuses the apparent correlation of increasing temperature with increasing ozone.

Volcanoes also deplete ozone when they emit large amounts of chlorine into the atmosphere. Throughout Earth history, whenever we find evidence of volcanoes with large basaltic lava flows, we find evidence of major global warming and widespread mass extinctions. The net effect of the eruption of Bárðarbunga in Iceland and the lower Puna eruption in Hawaii is most likely the explanation for the severe ozone depletion and warming observed since December 2019.

“Ozone depletion plays a much bigger role in global warming than commonly recognized…”

…says Dr. Ward. We still have much to learn about the precise chemical paths causing ozone depletion, how they vary by season, and why these effects are usually greatest during the second winter after an eruption.

Ward is sharing insight and science behind the recent ozone phenomenon and what it means for the future of global warming.

TALKING POINTS (FOR INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES):

Will the Arctic Ozone Hole Reopen or is it an Open and Shut Case?
The Impact of Ozone Depletion on Global Warming
The Relationship Between Ozone Depletion, Volcanoes & Increasing Temperature

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