NOAA: Antarctic ozone hole has shrunk, full recovery predicted

UPI ^ | October 31, 2024 | Mike Heuer

[JZelle]

Does this mean I can go back to using Final Net?

[rktman]

Looking forward to it closing up.

[brookwood]

This is great, I won’t have to wear sunscreen next time I go to Antarctica and walk around in a swimsuit. I had to spend $4,000 to replace my car’s air conditioner because they banned Freon, but it was definitely worth it.

[Yo-Yo]

[Parmy]

It has been open more. And, then closes again, sort of. It just maybe that it is normal to have an ozone hole where it is.

It's kind of like claiming CO2 a "green house gas. If it so bad, why do some greenhouse operators put CO2 generators in their facilities? Is it because the plants thrive with more CO2?

[larrytown]

[CatOwner]

Probably the result of all the EVs in use. /s

[SunkenCiv]

Gaslighting about the environment by the environazis began with CFCs and Antarctica.

What happened is, no one knew it was there, and CFCs were long out of patent.

When space tech made it possible to study the atmosphere and the ozone hole -- a completely natural phenomenon -- was discovered, some hired gun hack made entirely unsubstantiated claims, zeroing in on a chemical for which a new product -- and a brand new patent -- could be sold to replace it.

Period.

[rightwingcrazy]

Thank goodness freon doesn’t affect the ozone layer when it comes from China.

[AF_Blue]

Areas subject to ozone depletion are subjected to more UV radiation from the sun, which raises the potential for skin cancer, cataracts and reduced agricultural yields.

Judging from the map of the hole's location, I don't think we'll have to worry about significant crop losses or world hunger.

[woodbutcher1963]

Kind of like developing a vaccine for a virus/disease that doesn’t exit YET.

[Red Badger]

John Wesley Powell, an American geologist and explorer, is credited with being the first European American to explore and document the Grand Canyon, in 1869, essentially a huge hole in the ground.....

He then notified the Federal Government in Washington D.C. that unless they took drastic measures immediately, the entire North American Continent could be destroyed in just a few decades........................Not.............

[C210N]

HAARP will do that

[GaltAdonis]

DuPont holds/held the patents in question.

[piasa]

For all they know, a hole in the ozone layer down there has been normal for millions of years.

They only bothered to start looking in 1974 or so when the first satellite capable of looking, looked.

[BenLurkin]

Was there ever a time when there wasn’t a hole in the ozone layer?

[NorthMountain]

It was first recognized in the 1950s, based on radiosonde data.

[Navy Patriot]

NOAA: Antarctic ozone hole has shrunk, full recovery predicted

Couldn't we get rid of Australia and New Zealand first, two of the Five Eyes Scum?

It'd be a major improvement, and a fitting tribute to Freon Environmental Insanity.

[butlerweave]

It’s a natural opening and closing like a democrat’s mouth