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Lookinc THroucH the IGVCLS 4 GIULI: And in January it was reported in Science magazine that the ozone layer has been thinning out worldwide - at an average of 1% annually from at least 1979 to 1986 - after independent analysis of US satellite data. Last summer the ozone layer over mainland Australia was depleted by 1- banned CFCs in aeroso] cans and last 2% up to the Tropic of Capricorn, before year Du Pont, the world’s largest CFC | partially reforming in Autumn. Worse manufacturer, voluntarily began phasing The Protocol has committed us to an | still, summer’s ozone depletion. over out all production. increase in stratospheric chlorine to | Antarctica reached 97% at some alti- Advisors to Ronald Reagan were | THREE TIMES the present level by the | tudes, The layer was less than half as urging the US not to sign the Protocol, | year 2020 - 10 times that present before | thick there as at the same time of year in claiming it would be a better idea to en- | widespread CFC use - and disastrous for | the mid-1970s, courage people to wear sunglasses, hats | the global ozone layer, Now that the issue is becoming politi- and chemical sunscreens than to inhibit The protocol is a placating, insincere | cally dangerous and economically dam- CFC production. and dangerous public-relations gesture. | aging, disinformation is spreading. But —_. Production of CFCs and other ozone- | remember - the health factors raised by Latest Findings destroying compunds must be cut drasti- | more ultraviolet light reaching into your Findings from the most extensive inves- | cally NOW if we are to be free to walk | body are under your influence. Your tigations ever carried outon ozone deple- | under open skies. body retrains and recycles its own mal- tion over Antarctica came just 14 days - a formed or cancerous cells all the time. too late for the Montreal conference to NASA Disinformation It’s your perception of the outcome of consider them. A few months earlier, the | NASA claimed last year that evidence it | UV exposure which will determine it. conference had seemed willing to wait | collected showing an alarming But wear a hat next Summer for this all-important data. GLOBAL decrease in ozone - not just -R. Ayana NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 CFCs and the Aerosol Association of Australia is phasing down the use of CFCs faster than the Montreal Protocol Suggests and in the mid-1970s, Australia’s W.C. Johnson Company phased out use of CFCs. The world has known of this danger to the ozone layer since at least 1974 - in 1978 the US n°. Se Atmosphere Update NASA Fiwpuss- | Waite Barra Burns - New Year's Resolutions _ NASA Disinformation —