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Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?
Yahoo.com ^ | May 6, 2010 | Stuart Fox, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer

Posted on 05/06/2010 12:43:41 PM PDT by SloopJohnB

Three British scientists shocked the world when they revealed on May 16th, 1985 - 25 years ago - that aerosol chemicals, among other factors, had torn a hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole. The ozone layer, which protects life on Earth from damaging solar radiation, became an overnight sensation. And the hole in the ozone layer became the poster-child for mankind's impact on the planet.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: climate; globalcooling; globalwarming; ozone; science
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Paging Al Gore!

Harldly mentioned anymore? Could it be before that in
the '70's it was fear-mongering about global cooling?

Then followed by ozone, now globaloney warming.

Writer H. L. Mencken had it pegged:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the
populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led
to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary
.

Or

The Cloven-Piven tactic of manufactured crisis?

1 posted on 05/06/2010 12:43:41 PM PDT by SloopJohnB
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To: SloopJohnB

Global Climate Change is more lucrative. People aren’t so concerned about cancer now.


2 posted on 05/06/2010 12:44:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: SloopJohnB

What happened? A Muzzie-Commie usurper was elected POTUS. Problem solved: Marxist in charge = no more ozone hole.


3 posted on 05/06/2010 12:47:07 PM PDT by twister881
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To: SloopJohnB

The same thing that happened to it when Bill Clinton became president.


4 posted on 05/06/2010 12:48:25 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102

Along with the homeless.


5 posted on 05/06/2010 12:49:04 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: twister881

“What happened? A Muzzie-Commie usurper was elected POTUS. Problem solved: Marxist in charge = no more ozone hole.”

Maybe the hot air enmanating from his mouth closed the ozone hole.


6 posted on 05/06/2010 12:49:10 PM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: SloopJohnB

They stuffed the hole with the ‘peace dividend’(which no one has seen or heard about any more, either) now there is no more hole!!! :)


7 posted on 05/06/2010 12:50:09 PM PDT by SMARTY ("Communism is a dead letter". Ortega y Gasset)
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A: There never WAS a hole, just a thinning.

The thinning was 10%. This 10% thinning was called a ‘hole’ by the MSM.

Ozone is created where the sun shines. The thinning was always measured over the Antarctic during our summer, and when the sun did NOT shine over the 'effected' area.

8 posted on 05/06/2010 12:50:11 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm really not Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: SloopJohnB
The hole in the ozone layer ran away with the spoon.
9 posted on 05/06/2010 12:50:39 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (It Matters Not What You Fight But What You Fight For.)
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To: SloopJohnB
Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?

It was just one step in a long progression of test of mass credulity.

10 posted on 05/06/2010 12:51:14 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked")
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To: the invisib1e hand

tests TESTS of mass credulity.


11 posted on 05/06/2010 12:51:32 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked")
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To: SloopJohnB

This hole ozone hole scare smacks of politicized science, the writer cites the banning of CFC from aerosals as the reason for it reverting back to normal, but I’m doubting this is the truth.


12 posted on 05/06/2010 12:51:46 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: SloopJohnB
Uhhh all the the Earth's Cool espcated through it and was replaced w/ Warm!
13 posted on 05/06/2010 12:52:17 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: SloopJohnB
Make that CARBON-GUZZLER Aglore !

The guy with the new 9 Million Dollar Carbon-Guzzling home.

14 posted on 05/06/2010 12:53:42 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: SloopJohnB

You don’t hear about it any more because it is even dumber than Anthropogenic Climate Change. Anyone who took high school chemistry should realize the ozone (O3) is highly reactive, in sufficient concentrations it can burn your respiratory system. The half life of stratospheric ozone is on the order of 3 minutes, and it is being constantly replenished by UV splitting O2 and the little lonely O’s look for O2’s to hang with. This happens over minutes, not years.


15 posted on 05/06/2010 12:53:51 PM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (Fnord!)
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Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?

I though you knew. He became president of the United States of America.
16 posted on 05/06/2010 12:55:13 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Is Obama an Irish, Italian or Japanese name?)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

Yep! There are a bunch of places where the “Sun Don’t Shine”!


17 posted on 05/06/2010 12:55:54 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: SloopJohnB

Easy. The Big Hair era in New Jersey came to an end and the Jersey grrrllllzzz stopped using so much hair spray.


18 posted on 05/06/2010 12:57:23 PM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: SloopJohnB

It’s under the end zone of the Meadowlands.


19 posted on 05/06/2010 12:57:35 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: SloopJohnB

Cloward-Piven Strategy


20 posted on 05/06/2010 12:58:58 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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