Day 011 - 12 Jul 94 - Page 78
1 Q. I think you may answered my last question. Was the
Antarctic survey a question of going and looking for
2 something but rather stumbling upon it?
A. It was the latter, my Lord, because the type of
3 equipment being used, which was the so-called Dobson
radiometer which is a method of measuring ozone in the
4 stratosphere, was originally made in something like the
1930s in the United Kingdom. What had been happening was
5 a set of what at that time were thought to be routine
measurements of ozone in the atmosphere. Because you get
6 quite a lot of variability from year to year, if you look
the at the data from the Antarctic survey will you
7 discover that because of the year to year fluctuations it
is was not until a significant decrease had been recorded
8 that people could unequivocally say there was an excess of
ozone destruction in the atmosphere in Antarctica.
9
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Unless there are any questions arising out
10 of that?
11 Thank you, Professor Duxbury.
12 MR. MORRIS: Are there any matters as we are not meeting until
next Monday? I cannot think of any, but are there any
13 points to be made?
14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, unless you have specifically in mind.
15 MISS STEEL: Was there something about you could not sit one
day or something on Thursday?
16
MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have to finish sitting on Thursday 21st
17 July at something like about 2.30 or so. It is a question
of what you want to do on that day, whether we sit on a
18 little later and call it a day for that day or whether we
have a half hour break, for instance, around 12 o'clock
19 and then go on for two hours, I am completely in your
hands.
20
MR. RAMPTON: We can see about when the time comes. It may be
21 that it will be a short day anyway.
22 MISS STEEL: We have Mr. Wheelock in the morning and Fairgrieve
and Civil Evidence Act notices in the afternoon.
23
MR. RAMPTON: It is the tail end of Wheelock, whether we call
24 Fairgrieve there or not, I do not know at the moment. That
would be one way of dealing with it, not to call
25 Fairgrieve that afternoon but call him some other time.
26 MR. MORRIS: That would be handy if we knew that.
27 MR. RAMPTON: I am not making a decision about it now. It is
one possibility.
28
MR. MORRIS: Mr. Horowitz is planned for Monday. If
29 Mr. Horowitz was to finish in the morning there would be a
break, is that correct, in the afternoon?
30
MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
