All of a sudden, you look at it differently wow, we really can affect the planet as a whole. Earlier in the year, in another Vega, the two pilots had become the first to cross the Arctic Ocean from Alaska to Svalbard, Norway. Some complained we shouldnt use that term, but once you let that term out of the bag, there was no going back. Please be respectful of copyright. The ozone hole was mentioned in newspapers and on TV quite commonly during the 1980s because the interest of environmental organisations kept it on the public radar, I think. Montzka, S. A. et al. And yeah, with nice coloured graphics it hits you in the face. 21, 11911194 (1994). An armed contingent of 1,400 seafarers, and three dog sled teams were likewise aboard. The ozone hole actually still appears every year, and it has completely disappeared from public conversation. Whats going through my mind? Every time I see [the pilots], they wave and smile. The two plus signs show the location of oceanographic robots that were trapped in a spinning column of water above an underwater mountain known as Maud Rise.AMSR2-ASI/University of Bremen. You have to remember that the ozone hole story was sort of simple and straightforward, and that CFCs had not been part of our economy for that long and they were not the same as carbon dioxide which is coming from our basic energy generation, so that the regulations that limited the CFCs could be handled by the economy quite easily. 58 (WMO, 2018). Recently, scientists discovered a weak spot in the ozone layer over Antarctica. THEORY: A whistleblower claims he saw an alien base in the Antarctic. In January of 1956, Admiral Byrd led yet another expedition to the South Pole. Their data showed that, after about 20 years of fairly steady values, ozone levels began dropping in the austral spring months around the late 1970s (Fig. Mrs Howe, who has been awarded for her paranormal investigations, said she was contacted several times by the whistleblower. Bats and agaves make tequila possibleand theyre both at risk. The study also used data from the long-running Argo ocean observing program, elephant seals that beam data back to shore, weather stations and decades of satellite images. 16th May 1985. Letters to Nature, p207. Satellite images from Aug. 30, 2017 through Dec. 2, 2017 show the rarely-seen opening in the late Southern Hemisphere winter sea ice. It is locked beneath a crust of ice larger than Spain and more than 1,000 feet thick, making its waters perpetually darkand extremely difficult for humans to access. Res. Tolbert, M. A., Rossi, M. J., Malhotra, R. & Golden, D. M. Science 238, 12581260 (1987). When does spring start? NASA Worldview/NASA Blue Marble. We were able, in a very short time, to put together a lot of pieces and to draw a much clearer picture of how this part of the Earths system works and what might affect it and what might not affect it. WebBut in the early 1980s, through a combination of ground-based and satellite measurements, scientists began to realize that Earths natural sunscreen was thinning dramatically over the South Pole each spring. Its a huge area, but we have a tiny widow into it, Griffiths said. This deep reservoir of carbon has been locked away for hundreds of years, and in a polynya it might get ventilated at the surface through this really violent mixing, Campbell said. The study shows that when winds surrounding Antarctica draw closer to shore, they promote stronger upward mixing in the eastern Weddell Sea. He was the leading pilot of his time, just missing the headlines and fame of having been the first to claim a trans-Atlantic flight, due to engine troubles; Charles Lindbergs name is now etched in history instead. Anderson, J. G. et al. The paper really changed the way people look at the environment. Atmos. She lives right across the street from where the FedEx pilot was hit by gunfire. This thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica came to be known as the ozone hole. And that could provide another chance to investigate when this area was free of ice in the past, says Scherer: Im very interested to see what the Kiwis find., Copyright 1996-2015 National Geographic SocietyCopyright 2015-2023 National Geographic Partners, LLC. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Lett. The former US Naval officer said he was on duty when he came across the mystery structure buried into the ice. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles My name is Erik Conway. Admiral Byrd explained that the North and South Poles are just two of several openings into the center of the Earth. But it can also appear far from the coast and stick around for weeks to months, where it acts as an oasis for penguins, whales and seals to pop up and breathe. Now, a team of researchers think they know what caused it. Research Scientist - Chemistry Research & Innovation, POST-DOC POSITIONS IN THE FIELD OF Automated Miniaturized Chemistry supervised by Prof. Alexander Dmling, Ph.D. POSITIONS IN THE FIELD OF Automated miniaturized chemistry supervised by Prof. Alexander Dmling, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute opens A SENIOR RESEARCHER POSITION IN THE FIELD OF Automated miniaturized chemistry supervised by Prof. Alexander Dmling. Cline Heuz, a physical oceanographer at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, told Earther in a phone interview that other recent research has shown 2017 to be quite an intense year in the Southern Ocean with respect to storm activity. While Heuz said that the new studys findings make sense, shes keen to learn more about the role that the ocean plays, which is why she recently had a student trek out and deploy an autonomous profiler to measure temperature and salinity in the Maud Rise area. Meanwhile, the lakes beneath Academy Glacier drained between 2009 and 2018. Res. Lett. It is It really is, especially dealing with the youth. Additional funding is from the NSF, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of Washington and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 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The Commonwealth has been found guilty of two charges over the 2016 death of a helicopter pilot in Antarctica. It has been said that when he returned, he reported exactly what took place during this exploration. So said the great explorer, Admiral Richard Byrd. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Large and long-lasting polynyas can also affect the atmosphere, because deep water contains carbon from lifeforms that have sunk over centuries and dissolved on their way down. In a statement to WMC, FedEx said: Our thoughts remain focused on the well-being of our team member. Welcome to the Hollow Earth Research Society, Admiral Richard Byrd andthe Hollow Earth. This suggested that the entire Ross Ice Shelf, and much of the ice behind it, had collapsed. And now, ozone in the news. 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Amid the glow of 24-hour summer sunlight filtering down through fog, they assembled an automobile-sized contraption of pipes, hoses, and boilers. I am the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Police said someone opened fire on the crash pad just after midnight. According to their claims, polar explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole on this day in the Josephine Ford, a triple-engine Fokker HighJump has become a contentious subject among UFO conspiracy theorists, who claim it was a covert US army project to control supposed secret underground Nazi establishments in Antarctica and catch the German Vril flying discs, or Thule mercury-powered spaceship prototypes. in Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Climate Change (ed. After lowering the sediment corer through the borehole, the scientists then lowered it through about 1,600 feet of seawater below the floating ice shelf. 2023 Cable News Network. Satellite observations have confirmed a progressive deterioration in the Earths protective ozone layer above Antarctica, according to scientists. The winter ice on the surface of Antarcticas Weddell Sea occasionally forms an enormous hole. According to this account, Operation HighJump, the biggest exploration ever to target the Antarctic, was organized to erase the Nazi presence at the south pole. A UFO whistleblower claims he saw the entrance to a top secret alien base hidden deep in the Antarctic. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves tells CNN's Alisyn Camerota about his unit's experiences with UFOs and explains the problems they can pose for military and commercial aviation. So, while there are lessons, I think with carbon dioxide we are dealing with a much more difficult problem that goes way beyond the parameters that were involved in the ozone hole. 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Key points: David Wood died of hypothermia after falling into a crevasse during a routine fuel drop Both the Commonwealth Environment Department and his employer were charged over the death Well, the Goddard folks had set quality control software to look at the data automatically as it came back from the satellite and mark as potentially bad data anything that showed levels below a certain amount, and these levels of the prediction of the Antarctic Surveys were below that amount. At the time, the amount of data was so massive it was overwhelming and very difficult to deal with. These animals can sniff it out. A NASA satellite image in August 2016 drew public attention to a 33,000-square-kilometer (13,000-square-mile) gap that appeared for three weeks. What they found in that paper was, during the springtime, a 40% or more decline and that that 40% only ten years earlier was not there, so this happened very rapidly. On the 19th of September, 1947, the American explorer, Admiral Richard Byrd flew to the South Pole. Article He is considered to have been an extremely brave and honest man. Though even bigger gaps had formed decades before, this was the first time oceanographers had a chance to truly monitor the unexpected gap in Antarctic winter sea ice. One day in December, a cylinder dripping with gray gleaming mud was hoisted out of the borehole, into the bright summer suna core plucked from the sea floor, 2,400 feet beneath the drill site. Fricker's breakthrough opened up the possibility of tracking the lake system over time. Press, 1998). Which travel companies promote harmful wildlife activities? The second lake drained between 2014 and 2015 and is currently filling up again, while the third lake drained just slightly between 2016 and 2017. Im really trying to figure out what happened, said Munn. We had a period of about ten years where the data hadnt been reduced and doing it manually was quite time consuming. Molina, M. J. At 12:10 a.m. Tuesday, one pilots crash pad became a crime scene. Brian said the hole was five to ten miles from the South Pole. Admiral Richard Byrd created a fantastic reputation in the history of the US Navy. Youve been listening to the Nature PastCast, produced by Charlotte Stoddart and with contributions from Jonathan Shanklin, Richard Stolarski and historian Erik Conway. The lakes grow and shrink beneath the ice. ISSN 0028-0836 (print). & Rowland, F. S. Nature 249, 810812 (1974). It is not clear to me to this day who coined the term ozone hole and when and where it was done. They also found that what was thought to be one lake under the MacAyeal ice stream was actually two. Google Scholar. If they live out of town but will be flying out of the Memphis hub, they stay overnight in a crash pad, a cheap place to rent close to the airport. Chem., 2011). I was given the task of writing the programmes, supervising the digitisation of the data and processing it. He allegedly made the bizarre sightings between 1983 and 1997 when he was stationed with the Antarctic Development Squadron. Torge Martin, a meteorologist and climate modeler at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, told Earther via email that the studys authors make a valuable contribution to explaining the occurrence of the polynya, and they are correct in arguing that the atmospheric side has been less studied in the past., This is because the preconditioning in the ocean is essential, Martin wrote. So said the great explorer, Admiral Richard Byrd. It became the ozone hole and it seems to me that it certainly made it easier to reach a greater part of the public by having a simple key word that you could describe it by. Yeah, with nice coloured graphics it hits you in the meantime, ensure. 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