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The Ozone Trends Panel which reported last week has confirmed that the expected downward drift in stratospheric ozone is under way, but not as yet catastrophically. The next three years will tell.
With the recognition that surface measurements of gravity cannot be extrapolated backwards into the Earth's interior, the concept of the geoid became unfashionable. But its fortunes may be on the turn.