redOrbit: Laypeople tend to mix up the ozone hole and global warming. The popular belief is that the hole is a major cause of the worlds increasing average temperature. On the other hand, scientists have long attributed the ozone shortage in the hole to a small cooling trend. A new computer model study, led by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, suggests that there might be a slight warming influence from the ozone hole. The influence is due to the holes effect on winds, however, not temperatures. The...