[Bogus] Nobel laureate John Byrne of the University of Delaware provides a nine-decade weather forecast

Regardless of whatever action is taken, he said, the Earth will remain hot through this century.

"Welcome to a warmer world," said Byrne, who heads the UD Center for Energy and Environmen-tal Policy. "My life will be over before we're able to reverse the warming process."

Ozone Hole [Allegedly] Causes Antarctic Sea Ice to Expand, Slows Warming - Bloomberg.com

CFCs “are very long-lived in the atmosphere so it’ll take 50 to 100 years for the ozone hole to heal,” he said. “Over that time, greenhouse gases we expect will ramp up, and if that happens, over the next decade we’ll see sea ice extent plateau and then rapidly decrease, and then by the end of the century we expect there to be a third less ice around the Antarctic.”

The researchers’ findings will take a key argument away from skeptics of global warming who say Antarctica is evidence that humans aren’t causing temperatures to rise, Turner said.

“They were saying this shows that global warming is not real, this is an anomaly, but now we know it’s another anthropogenic factor, which is the ozone hole,” he said. “We’ve really managed to solve another piece of the puzzle of what’s happening in the Antarctic.”

At last, the solution to global warming: atmospheric pollution :: Gerald Warner

Run that past us one more time... Global warming is slowing down, not advancing like a forest fire... Antarctic ice has increased by 100,000 square kilometres a decade over the past 40 years... And the hero of the day is pollution, which has created the hole in the ozone layer that has kept the Antarctic cold and enabled plants to absorb 25 per cent more carbon dioxide. Does Al Gore know about this?
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The great thing about climate change is its unending capacity to surprise, to contradict, to disappear up its own ecological fundament. It is a non-stop comedy of errors, retractions, assertions and impositions. If you have an ounce of public spirit, you ought to be kindling a coal fire, carting rubbish to the landfill, or at the very least lighting up a cigarette - until the next panic-stations report comes up with a diametrically contradictory diagnosis of what ails the planet. At least the pollution from yesterday's Budget speech must have done a lot for the hole in the ozone layer.