Thursday, April 21, 2011

Settled science?: "Ozone is now widely believed to be the dominant agent of climate change in the Southern Hemisphere"

Ozone hole dominates shifting S.Hemisphere climate | Energy & Oil | Reuters
This depletion of ozone has shifted the Southern Hemisphere's climate so that dry areas in the subtropics now see about 10 percent more precipitation in summer than they used to, scientists reported in the journal Science.

"Ozone is now widely believed to be the dominant agent of climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, so this actually means that the international agreements regulating climate change cannot be confined to dealing with carbon dioxide," said the study's lead author, Sarah Kang of Columbia University.

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