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12-07-2004, 08:03 PM

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Janet Baraclough.. writes:
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| The ozone layer (or lack of it) plays a significant role in screening
| UV. In Scotland the ozone layer is seriously depleted, May usually has
| clear skies, and even when the temp is only 60 to 70 F, skin can burn
| within minutes. It's not uncommon in that month for people here to burn
| seriously enough to require hospital admission. Scotland has the highest
| incidence of skincancer in the UK.

It is possible that Scotland (specifically) could have very high
levels on freak days in May, if both the ozone layer were depleted
and the atmosphere was very dry, but I have difficulty in believing
that anyone with normal skin will burn 'within minutes', due to the
sunlight alone, if by that you mean a small number of them.

a small number of what? I didn't mean "within minutes, skin will burn
badly enough for hospital admission".

The fast May burn I'm talking about is the kind when skin begins to
sting within minutes of sun exposure. Red within a half hour. Painful
hot and tight during the night, maybe with watery blisters, peels off a
few days later. That's what the Dr below commented on. She didn't
recognise that the sting on her tropic-accustomed skin could be giving
her a warning after mere minutes of exposure in Scotland.

| A couple of years back we were in Darwin Australia in May, also clear
| skies, 90 degrees, sun much more direct, no burn sensation at all. I met
| an Australian doctor there who had just arrived back from Scotland, and
| remarked on the same thing. Her caucasian skin which never blistered at
| home in Darwin,was burned in Scotland.

I don't know Darwin, but I suspect that you are assigning the effect
to the wrong cause.

What do you think the cause is?

The point about the above claims is that they would place Scotland in
May as comparable to (say) Nairobi in terms of ultraviolet levels.
Yes, I am aware that they are also made by the politico-medical
stablishment, but their record for the abuse of statistics and just
plain deceit is unparalleled.
That was why I tried hunting up some
figures. No joy.

So whaddya reckon accounts for the many observations by people who
weren't expecting their skin to suddenly start tingling and going red on
May mornings in Scotland....mass hysteria ? :-)

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Services/Edu...radiation.html gives some research refs at the end.

Janet.

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