NASA goes on to heal the wound of bad news in their article that as the season closes there may be improvement.
Either one measures the ozone depletion accurately at its minimum of you don't. So the statement above, besides the actual numbers, is all I needed to know.
I think NASA is doing a good job of tracking this depletion. I wish governments were just as good at stopping the emissions.
A Growing La Niña Chills Out the Pacific (click here)
09.15.10
..."This La Niña has strengthened for the past four months, is strong now and is still building," said Climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "It will surely impact this coming winter's weather and climate.
"After more than a decade of mostly dry years on the Colorado River watershed and in the American Southwest, and only one normal rain year in the past five years in Southern California, water supplies are dangerously low," Patzert added. "This La Niña could deepen the drought in the already parched Southwest and could also worsen conditions that have fueled Southern California's recent deadly wildfires."
NASA will continue to track this change in Pacific climate....
Over the past decade the 'heating cycle' of El Nino have been dominating the Pacific. A strong La Nina might actually be an interesting development. The 'shift' in the location of El Nino is of serious concern. It is still yet ANOTHER hall mark of a very hot troposphere and the Climate Crisis.
Deviations from normal sea surface temperatures (left) and sea surface heights (right) at the peak of the 2009-2010 central Pacific El Niño, as measured by NOAA polar orbiting satellites and NASA's Jason-1 spacecraft, respectively. The warmest temperatures and highest sea levels were located in the central equatorial Pacific. Image credit: NASA/JPL-NOAA
August 25, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. - A relatively new type of El Niño, (cick here) which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA. The research may improve our understanding of the relationship between El Niños and climate change, and has potentially significant implications for long-term weather forecasting....
August 25, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. - A relatively new type of El Niño, (cick here) which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA. The research may improve our understanding of the relationship between El Niños and climate change, and has potentially significant implications for long-term weather forecasting....
