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Stratospheric total ozone values have been obtained for the period 1912–50 from analysis of Smithsonian data. Naturally caused variations of 25% or more are common over time scales ranging from months to decades. We suggest that the ozone layer acts as a shutter on the incoming solar energy, providing one of the long sought trigger mechanisms betwen solar activity and climatic change. The present state of knowledge of ozone climatology is not sufficient to support popular speculations about man's effects on the ozone layer.
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Angione, R., Medeiros, E. & Roosen, R. Stratospheric ozone as viewed from the Chappuis band. Nature 261, 289–290 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/261289a0
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