[LCA2019 Chat] temperature in the conference

[Thomas Sprinkmeier]

On 15/1/19 10:09 am, E. Dunham wrote:
> I have personally gotten a lot more sunburned in NZ than in Hawaii or Oregon, on days that "feel" equally sunny. This could be psychosomatic because I've been told to wear sunblock more down there, or it could be from mis-judging how sunny a day is, or any of a bunch of other factors as you mentioned.

FYI
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-15/tasmanian-heat-feels-hotter-than-on-mainland/10705112

> Regardless, I hope we can all agree that getting burned is a thing to be avoided and, for whatever reason, misjudging sunniness and getting burned is common for visitors to NZ. Perhaps my original point would have been better communicated without any mention of the ozone layer at all, but alas, it's set in the stone of the mailing list now.
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> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, at 3:34 PM, John Carter wrote:
>> Careful, this is how we get climate change deniers....
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>> ..scientific imprecision uttered so often that nobody is aware that it is wrong...
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>> I'd point at NOAA but Trump has closed it down for now.. anyway this will do...
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>> https://www.eldoradoweather.com/climate/world-maps/world-ozone.html
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>> See. NZ has a thicker ozone layer than most of the world.
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>> Less thick than Northern Europe, but substantially thicker than Australia, Africa most of Latin America....
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>> But somehow it has entered the culture that NZ has an Ozone hole.
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>> No it hasn't.
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>> Antarctica has.