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In article <pacsoftDGEwp9.H1F@netcom.com>, pacsoft@netcom.com (Wilhelm Sarasalo) wrote:
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> I just read an article in L.A. times. That article claims, and I have
> seen this claim before, that destroying Earth's Ozone layer leads
> to global warming.

Here are some reliable references:

Ozone depletion: BAS Press Release 2/95, 1 August 1995

OZONE "HOLE" OVER ANTARCTICA STILL DEEPENING

"The Antarctic ozone "hole" is still deepening, according to
 research by Dr Anna Jones and Jonathan Shanklin of the British
 Antarctic Survey (BAS), published in Nature this week.
 Springtime values of ozone recorded at Halley Research Station
 in Antarctica have fallen to less than 40% of the values seen
 in the 1960s. New research shows that the decline is no longer
 restricted to the Antarctic spring but has extended into the
 summertime, increasing the amount of harmful ultra-violet
 radiation reaching the surface of Antarctica and its
 surrounding oceans."

[See also: http://www.acd.ucar.edu/gpdf/ozone/index.html
 http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/index.html
 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/ozone-depletion/
 http://www.ciesin.org/

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Global warming: SCIENCE NEWS, Vol 147, Page 362, June 10, 1995:

"In recent months an iceberg nearly as large as Rhode Island
 broke off an Antartic ice shelf, apparently because of rising
 temperatures there.  A statistician declared that the seasons
 had slipped sync with the calendar, perhaps because of
 greenhouse gas pollution.  And just in time for a climate
 summit in Berlin 2 months ago, a German research team
 reported finding an abnormal pattern of change in climate
 records that does not correspond to any natural causes.

"Although the annual average global temperature has risen by
 about 0.5 degrees C since the late 19th century, investigators
 have had difficulty determining whether natural forces or
 human actions deserve the blame. But in late February, Klaus
 Hasselmann, director of the prestigious Max-Planck Institute
 for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, stepped forward to point
 a finger.

"The Max-Planck researchers find it highly improbable -- only
 1 chance in 20 -- that natural forces caused the temperature
 rise during the last century."

 Published by Science Service Inc., 1719 N. St. N.W.,
 Washington, D.C.  20036  202-785-2255

[See also: http://www.ciesin.org/
 http://solstice.crest.org/environment/global_change/gc.htm
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Jay