Yes, it sounds right, Chris, from my super-cursory read in the last 20 years
of journo-scientific reports about your continent. The hole in the ozone.
Apparently it's a phenomenon unhinged from actual air temperature in its
frying/broiling/killing ability. Anyone have an actual readable scientific
source for my assumptions? Is the phenomenon limited to Chris's continent?
Can we talk of this without a weary rework of the Global Warming debate?
Oh I hope so!
Judy
2010/1/25 Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 12:24 -0800, Brian Hawkins wrote:
> > it doesn't often get as hot here as it does in Melbourne or Narrabri.
>
> I have been thinking about this, the way it can get to 50 degrees C in
> the Mid East or the USA dessert regions and people don't see that
> bothered. Whereas here, this morning the thermometer only said a mild 30
> degrees C and I had to retreat indoors away from the sun.
>
> My younger brother, having sold up the farm and doing the grey nomad
> motor-home trip around Aust is currently in Tasmania and said that the
> sun is so violent you can't go out into it that far south... and this is
> Tasmania, like snow and cold.
>
> It is to do with the hole in the ozone layer over the south pole. The
> heatwave here in late spring burnt leaves off hardy drought tolerant
> scrubs in my garden. Even my marijuana plant keeled over and died. So
> basically, I am far enough south to be exposed to life threatening
> sunlight, whereas this is not the case in the Mid East or USA.
>
> Does this sound right? Chris Jones.
>
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