Hole in the Ozone Layer Shrinks, Climate Alarmists Hardest Hit

townhall.com ^ | Amy Curtis December 01, 2025

[V_TWIN]

This writer remembers being in kindergarten when her teachers started talking about the hole in the ozone layer. It was going to get bigger, we were told, and the world would begin boiling from heat, crops would burn from acid rain, and cities would be uninhabitable thanks to smog.

That was 1988, and now — 37 years later — this writer is staring at a foot of snow outside her window, and there's nary a drop of acid rain in sight. Cities are uninhabitable, but that's because of Democratic Party policies and not smog.

Ah, so we didn't have to give up our SUVs and eat bugs and the planet just healed itself.

Has a single prediction of theirs come true?

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: climate; ozone; ripoff; scam

[DugwayDuke]

woodbutcher1963 wrote: “It did not run well on unleaded, even super. So, I started buying 110 octane leaded racing fuel at Haffner’s here in NH.”
If there are some marinas near by, they usually have the non-alcohol gasoline since a lot of boats dont run well on the fuels with alcohol added..

[Lockbox]

I watched a video talking about Los Angeles real estate, and they blamed a lot of the issues on climate change. One of the climate change issues they mentioned was “unchecked vegetation growth“. That’s a new one for me, I just cut my lawn and pull weeds….

[dayglored]

> ...It was said at that time that if the CFC's were banned, the ozone hole would close over time. I have no idea if the science behind that was correct, BUT the fact that the ozone whole is shrinking doesn't contradict what they were claiming at the time. That's actually what they said would happen.

As I recall, this was the sequence of "events":

1. Some researcher discovered the "hole" in the ozone layer.
2. Some researcher determined that the "hole" was getting larger.
3. Panic ensued.
4. CFCs were blamed, and banned.
5. Later, the "hole" got smaller.
6. Also later, the "hole" got larger again.
7. And smaller again.

The "hole" is dynamic and exhibits quasi-cyclic behavior based on many likely causes. Claiming that CFCs were to blame for its dynamic aspect is not supported by the evidence. Claiming that banning CFCs is responsible for the hole changing size is not supported by the evidence either.

Coincidence is not causation. Even correlation is not causation.

We don't know squat about the atmosphere compared to what we have yet to learn. Maybe some day we'll actually figure out all the things that affect the ozone layer. But not today.

[woodbutcher1963]

Yes, thanks for the tip. I have gone on the internet and searched several times.
Mostly because I like to put it through my Lexus IS 350C prior to winter storage OR my lawn tractor.
However, the closest place is about an hour drive away at a marina on Lake Sunapee.

For the lawn mower I run it down to almost no ethanol gas left in the tank and wait for it to stall. Then I put in a quart or two of the NON Ethanol gasoline you can buy in almost all the small engine retailers, hardware stores and HD/Lowes around here. Then distribute moth balls around the engine area and cover it up.

For the car I filled it with Premium and put in a bottle of the Blue Starlight fuel Stabilizer. Then pull the battery and put Bounce dryer sheets all over inside it. Then cover it. I stored it at the local county fair grounds in a building. The $200 rent/storage fee goes to the local 4H.
That is $200 until next April. Not $200/month. Which is really cheap.

[alstewartfan]

I remember when the hole settled RIGHT ABOVE KENNEBUNKPORT, ME! Scary times!🥶

[Celtic Conservative]

IIRC, it tends to get smaller in the winter (insert mildly inappropriate joke here).

CC

[V_TWIN]

[Dutch Boy]

What if the hole in the ozone layer prevented the 1970s ice age from happening? Sort of like nature’s thermostat.

[dfwgator]

“I was in the pool!”

[V_TWIN]

[The Great RJ]

Freon refrigerants were demonized as the cause of the ozone hole, but again poor science and alarmist predictions have caused safe refrigerants to be replaced with flammable cyclopropane. Now your refrigerator is a bomb on your kitchen.

[kawhill]

“Hole in the Ozone Layer Shrinks, Climate Alarmists Hardest Hit”. That must be why it’s only 25 degrees below normal here now.

[Celtic Conservative]

😁👍

CC

[stateofit]

https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ozone_maps/movies/OZONE_D1979-10%25P1Y_G%5e360X240.IOMPS_PNPP_V21_MMERRA2_LSH.mp4

I’m not seeing a trend I would bet on.

[BerryDingle]

Ethanol gas used to destroy carburetor gaskets and cause all kinds of problem.

[suthener]

They measured an atmospheric condition for a couple decades on a 4 billion year old planet and thought they could determine a trend. I’m sorry, but that’s retarded.

[LastDayz]

“Now your refrigerator is a bomb on your kitchen.”

As opposed to ammonia in the very early days where a leak would asphyxiate everyone in the house.

Bring back R-12.... the safest refrigerant known to mankind.

[Libloather]

The hole is smaller because I stopped using hairspray. There, I said it.

[oldtech]

Imagine getting R-12 back as a refrigerant at a reasonable price. It worked really well. I remember seeing A/C systems that would go ice cold & very few problems with it to my knowledge....and then the situation started regressing & R-12 prices went sky high. Seems to me the whole thing was just an economic scheme. Not sure who should take the blame for this...possibly the EPA. Wouldn’t be the first they messed things up, I’m guessing.