Exactly what I was thinking - hmmm, wasn't this the disaster du jour back then? Is it the same hole that was getting bigger and threatening the planet? It's just been hanging around quietly for the past 25 year or so? And who would have thought the atmosphere would be cold 13 miles up where it is less dense in the first place. Sheesh.
Human skin cancer rates will skyrocket, the penguins will go blind, plankton will disappear and whales will starve to extinction.