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     4        stratosphere, was originally made in something like the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.

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