Ozone, The Hole is back! Today's News.. The Ozone hole is larger in 2025! Sunday Nov. 30th. 2025. I remember in Chemistry class being taught that Ozone (O 3 ) was formed in the upper atmosphere by Cosmic Rays 1 or Alpha Particles from the Sun bumping into Oxygen molecules (O 2 ) according to the equation 3O 2 ⇋ 2O 3 , a reversible reaction. Reactive and unstable, Ozone decays pretty soon, back into O 2 , or an oxide of Nitrogen (NO x ), there being plenty of Nitrogen around up there. So imagine my surprise when I learned that in America Ozone is believed to come from automobile exhaust pipes in places like Los Angeles. When, in the ‘80s a sharp eyed New York Times reporter first spotted the ‘Ozone Hole’ lurking over Patagonia in late October or November I was curious. ...
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June 2022 To the Editor: Sir, Madam (or other), “Never in the history of human affairs has so much damage been inflicted on so many by so few”..with apologies to Winston S. Churchill. *(The Few speech 1940)* I refer of course to the Battle of Covid -19 now entering its third year with the explosive arrival of the Omicron variant. Despite every defensive measure from endless hand washing, hand wringing and hand waving; through masking, and double masking, to social separation, shut downs, and school closures, to lockdowns, vaccines and endless boosters, the resilient mutating virus re-emerges, like Rommel’s Panzers in 1940, behind the Maginot line to render the massive national investment irrelevant. Forgive me for correlating the massive social costs of the French Maginot line with the massive social costs of the failure to defeat COVID-19. The former turne...