This got me chuckling, so I thought I would post it here. I really liked the rant that went with it and the little image of ALGOR (a.k.a. OZONE) fretting over his champ having been K.O.’d.
From Sam Ryskind’s cartoon site, Fresh Meat: NOAA and NASA Want Antarctica To Melt
You don’t hear much about the ozone hole any more. Has it gone away? Nope. NOAA and NASA say in 2006 it was bigger and deeper than ever.
But wait, you say, we implemented the Montreal Protocols in 1989, eliminating ozone depleting CFCs. Kofi Annan called the Protocol, “Perhaps the most successful international agreement to date.” CFC concentrations have been falling since 1995. How can the ozone hole be worse?
It’s not worse, says NOAA, it’s better. It’s just that you can’t see how great the Protocol is working because colder than average temperatures in the Antarctic mask the benefit. Cold weather result[s] in larger and deeper ozone holes, while warmer weather leads to smaller ones.
Colder in Antarctica? Al Gore told me it was melting! Al Gore told me there was consensus. Consensus!
Hat Tip John at Power Line