Antarctica 9 Degrees F Colder

Assume:
1. We are making the Ozone Hole in Antarctica bigger by sniffing freon.
2. We are making the earth warmer by growing methane spewing forests and raising farting cows.

Conclusion: Tilt, Tilt!

Sorry, these a axioms don't lead anywhere right now as they are mutually exclusive.

In a recent report bemoaning the huge hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica, there is a reference to the understsanding that it is unusual cold that causes the hole to grow so large. When the southern hemisphere warms up, the hole shrinks.

From Science Daily

...The temperature of the Antarctic stratosphere causes the severity of the ozone hole to vary from year to year. Colder than average temperatures result in larger and deeper ozone holes, while warmer temperatures lead to smaller ones. The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) provided analyses of satellite and balloon stratospheric temperature observations. The temperature readings from NOAA satellites and balloons during late-September 2006 showed the lower stratosphere at the rim of Antarctica was approximately nine degrees Fahrenheit colder than average, increasing the size of this year's ozone hole by 1.2 to 1.5 million square miles.

I located a graph that represented the average temperature to 1988 at the South Pole. Funny thing is I can't find anything on the average yearly temperature there for the past few years. Curious.

Indeed, NASA reports the Ozone hole is repairing itself, assuming we know what it is supposed to be like since we only discovered it in 1985: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26may_ozone.htm

I will keep looking for the graph after 1988. Bet you a quarter that if the average showed a warming trend, the graph would not be so hard to locate.

If you look back at a prior entry, you will see the Antarctice sea ice is increasing.