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What is the relation between the global warming and the ozone hole ?

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Hello,

Basically, it was found that the predominant agents causing ozone depletion (the CFCs or choloro-flourocarbons) were also global warming contributors. The CFCs had been generating an "ozone hole" in certain regions, such as the Antarctic, but with the replacement of most CFCs by non-offending substitutes that problem has been diminished.

Of course, doing the same with the other global warming agents will be much more difficult, given they are all fossil-fuel based and our industrial civilization appears addicted to them.  

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Philip Stahl

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I have forty years of experience in Astronomy, specifically solar and space physics. My specialties include the physics of solar flares, sunspots, including their effects on Earth and statistics as applied to astronomical investigations.

Experience

Astronomy: more than forty years experience starting with construction of my own simple telescopes. Worked at university observatory in college, doing astrographic measurements. M.Phil. degree in Physics/Solar Physics and more than ten years as researcher.

Organizations
American Astronomical Society (Solar Physics and Dynamical Astronomy divisions), American Mathematical Society, American Geophysical Union

Publications
Solar Physics (journal), The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, The Proceedings of the Meudon Solar Flare Workshop (1986), The Proceedings of the Caribbean Physics Conference (1985). Books: 'Selected Analyses in Solar Flare Plasma Dynamics', 'Physics Notes for Advanced Level'.

Education/Credentials
B.A. Astronomy, M. Phil. Physics

Awards and Honors
American Astronomical Society Studentship Award (1984), Barbados Government Award for Solar Research

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