Al Gore is not going to like this.
LONDON (Reuters) -- The ozone layer is showing signs of recovering, thanks to a drop in ozone-depleting chemicals, but it is unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels, researchers said on Wednesday.
..."We now have some confidence that the ozone layer is responding to the decreases in chlorine levels in the atmosphere due to the leveling off and decrease of CFCs," said Dr Betsy Weatherhead, of the University of Colorado in Boulder.
...Weatherhead and Signe Bech Anderson of the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen analyzed data from satellites and ground stations and information from 14 modeling studies.
They found that ozone levels have stabilized or increased slightly in the past 10 years.
Good news. We're saving the planet.
What an inconvenient discovery this is for Al Gore!
This could have an impact on the box office success of his film, An Inconvenient Truth.
Cheerleading for the former VP, Richard Cohen writes:
[Gore] is a man on a mission. Wherever he goes, he finds time and an audience to deliver his (free) lecture on global warming. It and the film leave no doubt of the peril we face and neither do they leave any doubt that Gore, at last, is a man at home in his role. He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried for and failed to gain the presidency, has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.
It looks like Gore may have to modify his lecture a bit.
How inconvenient!
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