{"id":6145,"date":"2014-11-06T08:03:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T08:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:03:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T08:03:46","slug":"explain-the-link-between-the-ozone-hole-and-global-warming-10-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/11\/06\/explain-the-link-between-the-ozone-hole-and-global-warming-10-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain the link between the ozone hole and global warming (10 marks)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can remember much moral panic\u00a0a few years back amongst education researchers of a particular bent who were worried\u00a0that students (who were mostly too young to know better) thought that the stratospheric ozone hole was contributing to global warming and (hence) climate change. \u00a0 There was much pontificating about the state of the nation's schools, and the inadequacy of the teaching force. \u00a0Turns out that the students\u00a0were right \u2013 in a back-handed\u00a0sort of way.<\/p>\n

The Economist<\/a> certainly claims that it is\u00a0the Montreal Protocol (the diplomatic miracle that did for the Ozone Hole, of course) which\u00a0has had the most impact on limiting greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere. \u00a0Some 135Bn tonnes have not entered the atmosphere since 1989 because of the protocol, it seems. \u00a0This is two\u00a0orders of magnitude greater than the next most effective interventions. \u00a0China's one-child policy came 4th in the list (1% of the effect of the protocol). \u00a0The EU's emission standards for cars, which have so changed the European motor industry for the good, by comparison, have contributed next to nothing.<\/p>\n

The Economist says that the data are a reminder that greenhouse gases are powerfully influenced by factors far beyond the scope of climate-change policies. \u00a0I think that the detail (and the many caveats) in the argument are worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can remember much moral panic\u00a0a few years back amongst education researchers of a particular bent who were worried\u00a0that students (who were mostly too young to know better) thought that the stratospheric ozone hole was contributing to global warming and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}