So the old Ozone Hole is closing up but global weather is becoming more extreme and damaging. Maybe time to get the sprays out and open that hole a little more to tame the weather.
Earth’s Ozone Layer was never in trouble, from halogenated hydrocarbons or even CO2.
The reason? Most fluorocarbon or chlorocarbon compounds are MUCH heavier than the primary constituents of the atmosphere (oxygen and nitrogen), and do not rise to stratospheric heights, where the ozone layer exists. Same goes for CO2.
Ozone is created when the high-altitude molecules of oxygen (normally O2) are bombarded with UV radiation, causing a fracture of the oxygen molecule into two mono-atomic oxygen atoms, which are INFINITELY more active than diatomic oxygen molecules. These highly active atoms immediately bond with an unfractured oxygen molecule, forming the ozone molecule, O3, which goes to make up the ozone layer on an ever-renewing basis in the upper atmosphere.
Of course, this is a highly reversible reaction, two O3 molecules reverting to three O2 molecules, but in the process, UV radiation has been absorbed and deflected from reaching the earth’s surface. The energy from the UV radiation is converted into heat, which is radiated off from the upper atmosphere as that part of the atmosphere turns away from the sun, with the fall of night.