{"id":277,"date":"2007-10-28T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2007-11-15T20:41:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T20:41:47","slug":"the-ozone-hole-seems-under-control-after-20-years-of-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-ozone-hole-seems-under-control-after-20-years-of-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"The ozone hole seems under control, after 20 years of regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Newsroom\/NewImages\/images.php3?img_id=17809\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/ozoneseptember200710.jpg?resize=540%2C794\" align=\"right\" height=\"794\" width=\"540\" \/><\/a>The ozone hole peaks in September.  While it was not the largest it has been it remains above average.  The linked article discusses the science behind the destruction of this protective layer of earth&#8217;s upper atmosphere.  Scientists don\u2019t expect the hole to significantly shrink for about another decade because of the long lifetimes (40-100 years) of CFCs already in the atmosphere. Full recovery is expected by about 2070 (if we don&#8217;t release another wave of pollutants that destroy the upper atmosphere).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ozone hole peaks in September. While it was not the largest it has been it remains above average. The linked article discusses the science behind the destruction of this protective layer of earth&#8217;s upper atmosphere. Scientists don\u2019t expect the hole to significantly shrink for about another decade because of the long lifetimes (40-100 years) &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-ozone-hole-seems-under-control-after-20-years-of-regulation\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The ozone hole seems under control, after 20 years of regulation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}