Has the ozone layer opened up above India due to excessive pollution?

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Has the ozone layer opened up above India due to excessive pollution?

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the ozone layer has not opened up any where....in some places its not as thick as other places....if it opened up we would be pretty screwed

No that is not an issue although the ozone layer which was starting to mend is threatened again by the increased pollution produced by India and China. The thinning of the ozone layer is primarily over Antarctica.

Some cities in India as in the US are plagued by Low Level Ozone, which is produced when NO2 (nitrous Oxides from the burning of fossil fuels react to sunlight. This is a very serious respiratory threat.

Part of the issue with LLO is that NO2 is a long lived greenhouse gas and will continue reacting with sunlight producing more and more NO2 is added every second of every day.

No.

The British Antarctic Survey were the first to notice the problem of ozone depletion back in the 80's they in fact had an instrument that had been quietly gathering background data on this since the 50's called a Dobson. So they had the data that showed the first major holes (thinning) of the ozone layer over Antarctica starting in the 70's.

It turned out global ozone was also being depleted but at a slower rate this was soon traced to CFC gases and action was taken, by international treaty CFC were banned soon after this the decline of ozone slowed and has since reversed in the global scale, Antarctica is slightly different in that it extreme cold slows the recovery process but it to is expected to have repaired itself by around 2060.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110516/f…

As with AGW deniers have invented yet more conspiracies for ozone depletion, this time it's supposed to be Dowcorning (although somtimes they us another company) who wanted it changed because their copyright had expired, this is a fine example of how little real thought these guys put into this nonsense, if that were the case any other chemical company could have challenged the CFC hypothesis and continued making CFC, nobody did.

You also have the usuall district lake of evidence common to denier arguments, they have no published evidence just the same old blogs they use to try and spin their fictions on AGW.

The ozone layer has not opened up anywhere in India, otherwise many people would suffer from skin cancer and other diseases. However, it may have thinned due to lax legislation pertaining to release of greenhouse gases by the burning of fossil fuels. India is a third world developing country that is unable to bridle its poverty stricken populace while educating them about the harmful effects of greenhouse gases which result from carbon emissions from factories and vehicles.

Not pollution from India, today, no.There are no ozone holes today (2012apr25).

Surface pollution is distributed worldwide within months.It takes months for gases released at ground level, to reach the ozone layer.

Pollutants that affect the ozone layer today, are... water vapor and CFCs.India no longer produces significant quantities of CFCs.This leaves water vapor...

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