[metmom]

Funny that that little tidbit never made much headlines, at least I don't remember hearing much about it at the time. The problem is that there is no way to know what went on before we found the ozone layer and started measuring it.

I found this particular comment in the article rather interesting: And a cooling of the lower atmosphere due to greenhouse gas emissions could delay the closing of the ozone hole, perhaps by a decade or so. So greenhouse gases cause cooling...but they're greenhouse so it should be warming...*sigh* we just can't win.

[phantomworker]

If the ozone layer is being depleted and ozone depletion causes increased rates of skin cancer, are we sufficiently adapting to it?

In terms of evolution, is our species adapting to it sufficiently, or are we, in time, going to become extinct like the dinosaur, and other species who have been evolving and adapting going to survive?

Just a little food for thought... since we get so caught up in our everyday lives that we often forget to look at the big picture.