In article , "Alastair McDonald" k writes:

"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
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"Simon S" wrote
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European Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potocnik.
....said
temperatures at a 20 kilometer (12 mile) height had dropped to
an average of minus 80 degrees Celsius the lowest over the Arctic in half
a century.

Question. Might this paradoxically be a sign of global warming?

Hi Jack,

I have just found this report which backs up your idea.

Evidence suggests that global warming enhances destruction of ozone layer
By DENNIS BUECKERT
OTTAWA (CP) - Two major environmental problems once thought to be unrelated -
climate change and ozone depletion - appear to be closely linked in ways that
will delay recovery of the ozone layer, scientists say...


See below for the full article
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/...919503-cp.html



Good grief. Have they been asleep all these years? BAS published all
of this way back in 1998 in the Journal of Geophysical Research...

....and as mentioned in an aside in uk.sci.weather in October 1998:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?C6D93666A



So folks... you heard it here first, and way before those sleepy
Canadians.



Cheers,


keith



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