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Thread #25200   Message #293967
Posted By: Escamillo
09-Sep-00 - 05:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ozone hole reaches Argentina
Subject: Ozone hole reaches Argentina
This fragment is extracted from the Cambridge University

"The first global agreement to restrict CFCs came with the signing of the Montreal Protocol in 1987 ultimately aiming to reduce them by half by the year 2000. Two revisions of this agreement have been made in the light of advances in scientific understanding, the latest being in 1992. Agreement has been reached on the control of industrial production of many halocarbons until the year 2030. The main CFCs will not be produced by any of the signatories after the end of 1995, except for a limited amount for essential uses, such as for medical sprays."

Those would be good news, but the bad news is that today newspapers are announcing in front pages that the Ozone Depletion is covering the whole territory of Antarctica and is expected to reach ARGENTINA TERRITORY (specifically Patagonia) within two MONTHS. Not thousands of years, not centuries. Two months.

UV rays will have a strong influence over huge parts of our territory that are well populated and where there is one of the most beautiful forests on Earth, not only over bald polar lands. What happened ? And what will we do ?

Un abrazo - Andrés