This is a real bad news:


http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/ozone_record.html


From September 21-30, 2006 the average area of the ozone hole was the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million square miles. This image, from Sept. 24, the Antarctic ozone hole was equal to the record single-day largest area of 11.4 million square miles, reached on Sept. 9, 2000. Satellite instruments monitor the ozone layer, and we use their data to create the images that depict the amount of ozone. The blue and purple colors are where there is the least ozone, and the greens, yellows, and reds are where there is more ozone.

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Linux Users Everywhere @ BOINC

If this keeps getting bigger, I can only begin to imagine the potential damage done to the Antartica ecosystem, as we start heading for the next solar maximum (due in 6ish years?). I don\'t think it will be a lot of fun down there with increased levels of hard radiation reaching ground level.

\'Really bad\' seems to be the understatement of the century, perhaps my priorities are wrong; perhaps, I misunderstand the big picture; but, doesn\'t this sort of put the alledged or otherwise global warming \'in the shade\'?

Ken Phillips