I'm very sorry, but the article quoted is totally non-credible, and should be deleted. It must have been written by some lay person who did not know what they were talking about. That article is about as bad as some well-intentioned celebrity who says hybrids are cool because they don't use gas.


#1 "human-spawned ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere over the Southern Ocean has created large changes in temperature throughout the atmosphere, Le Quere said."
FALSE! The ozone hole and global warming are unrelated. Ozone absorbs UV so we don't easily get cancer. Less ozone = more UV reaching the surface. But UV does not warm the earth. IR ( infrared ) warms the earth.

#2 the article states: "the uneven nature of global warming has produced higher temperatures in the northern parts of the world than in the south"
Well DUH! 80% of the land is in the northern hemisphere, and land ( rock, soil, sand, ) heats up about 3 times faster than water does. It has NOTHING to do with "more humans" or "more carbon dioxide" in the north.

Please don't believe everything you read. Since this author mixes up the basics of general Earth Science 101, the entire article is non-credible.

-John