Added: Oct 9, 2008

From: wired

Duration: 0:24

NASA's been tracking the thinning of the ozone layer the south pole for nearly 20 years. In this slowed-down animation, you can watch the ozone hole's average size each October. For more information, check out NASA's ozone hole monitoring site: http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Or read Wired.com's story about the city most affected by the problem: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayintech_1009

Channel: Tech

Tags: animation  data  environment  hole  nasa  ozone  pollution  science 

Rating: 4.65 (99 ratings)    Views: 61093' favoriteCount='81    Comments: 25

zomghawtness Says:

Oct 13, 2008 - X WRONG. Perhaps you should get at least a basic understanding of chemistry and the earth itself before speaking. You fucking retard.

MasterShakeBro Says:

Oct 13, 2008 - Humans dont cause global warming. The only thing hot enough to heat the planet, is the sun. This really is just simple science. Fun fact: Ozone is made up of parts of oxygen, almost 2/3 On Earth, trees and plants are the main producers of oxygen. How many trees are in the antarctic? One would suspect a low oxygen count, would also create a high lack of ozone. But thats just basic science, apparently too advanced for those morons who blame humanity for every problem that occurs on Earth.

kevowillis Says:

Oct 13, 2008 - No intimidation felt here.. I just get a pleasure out of putting you noobs in your place :)

waster125 Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - Since when has anyone said anything other than the sun is heating the earth?

MasterShakeBro Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - Gee, I guess all the rhetoric about fossil fuels damaging our eco-system are just misunderstood then huh? Hear me: humanity cannot cause climate change. We can barely even influence climate change. The only thing that can cause climate change is the sun. If the Earth is heating up, it is because it is cyclical, it happens every 250-500 years. We just happen to have technology to track it, and happen to be in the hot period. 50 years from now, it will be a global cool down. OH NO. PANIC!

Clockworkforest Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - Take a statistics class. You are in need friend.

Rata4You Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - OMG, you've gotta be shitting me. Capitalism is all about PRIORITIZING capital - THAT is the legal definition of the word. There's nothing in the definition about respecting human rights (China), respecting the enviornment (see China again), respecting labour (well, China). It's about capital aka MONEY. Regulations of any kind for the benifit of society is socialism. You need BOTH to survive.

Rata4You Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - AKA DEREGULATION. I work for a bank in Canada, this shit in the USA is illegal here...you'd go to prison for shit like that. Capitalists put profits ahead of society & their performance bonuses depended on the bubble they created. EVERYBODY in the banking industry in CANADA knew you guys were in trouble & that's why we divested ourselves from American exposure. NONE of our banks failed & NEVER will fail. We eat American banks for breakfast. For a bunch of socialists we're pretty clever.

austinisi Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - You seem to have a simplistic, not to mention wrong, view of capitalism. Also, to imply that China is capitalistic is intellectually lazy. Capital includes other things than money, FYI. Capital can include money, machinery, land, and human capital. Any 'pollution' is considered trespass of someone else's property(read: environment), and is considered to be illegal (just like damaging someone's car). And since when does any amount of regulation imply socialism?

austinisi Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - Empirical studies also show that the more free economically a country is, the better the environmental conditions are. Sorry to burst your bubble of misconceptions.

Rata4You Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - Any pollution is considered trespass....LOL....if you want to get down and dirty and really fuck the enviornment up you need to go to china. Is your factory damaging the ozone that alarms the local politicians constituents? Fuck, don't worry about it, go to CHINA! Need to get rid of 40,000 gallons of cynadie but it's too expensive? SHIP it to CHINA!! They'll "take care of it". Dude, stop acting like a child, ok? Grow the fuck up & stop pretending to be stupid.

Rata4You Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - Got a old oil tanker and it's time to decommision it? No problem...REFLAG it & ship it to China where all the toxins including oil are dumped in the ocean. Got 50,000 tonnes of cyanide to dump but your gov't won't let you? No problemo - ship it to CHINA. THESE things happen EVERYDAY, kid. It is NOT illegal. The "loop holes" are not "loop holes" they are DELIBERATE means to help business owners save money. I'm not arguing with you...accept the facts & do as you want wth them.

Rata4You Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - ...sorry, the reflagging of the oil tanker is sent to India - not China. The dumping of toxins is China's specialty. Not that any of that shit matters. But every ship owner knows this practice. Old ships are ALWAYS sent to India to die.

martinl345 Says:

Oct 14, 2008 - i think that we must change our style of living!

waster125 Says:

Oct 15, 2008 - a real gay car

eliminategas Says:

Oct 17, 2008 - Sorry but there is no such thing as an Ozone, this is just BS that scientists made up to justify taxing millions of Americans on their BS climate change policies.

Bound4War Says:

Oct 17, 2008 - funny how this video is such bullshit...since the ozone hole is over australia not fucking north america!

winterbug Says:

Oct 18, 2008 - wtf? This is a video of the ozone over antartica. Where does Australia and North America come into it?

ladymcrevenge Says:

Oct 18, 2008 - It opens and closes Oh God dont wanna know what expect us in the future

kevowillis Says:

Oct 18, 2008 - Are you getting paid to act like a douche bag or is this real?

ErichFranz1990 Says:

Oct 22, 2008 - It doesn't seem to be getting bigger.. it keeps fluctuating.

JammerJawz Says:

Oct 25, 2008 - Lol, that was sooo funny!

wojtek0000 Says:

Nov 7, 2008 - i agree. ozone is such green propaganda. look it just stayed the same basically. crock of shit for hippies to feel important about.

ancacool17 Says:

Nov 8, 2008 - huh???!

Steamboatwv Says:

Nov 14, 2008 - it has been proven and not let out into public that the hole in the ozone cycles its self every so many years, kinda like opening a window to let some fresh air in, just like its known that every so many years the earth leans more on its axis and makes the equator move upward so eventually it will turn far enought that the poles will shift and move, its all a normal process of the earth, people just want to use it for propaganda.