Haven’t heard about holes in the ozone since 1993.
Since refrigerants (R12 etc.) jumped about 400% in price.
How about Acid Rain?
Another made up story from the NRDC.
“Haven’t heard about holes in the ozone since 1993.”
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The Freakers ran out of ways to make any
more money on it.
The entire story about ozone holes was based on faulty "science" and poor reporting. What happened, is they launched a satellite that could measure ozone. It showed periodic thinning. As usual, the professional chicken littles ran around screaming that the sky was falling. What was left out of the breathless "reporting" was that they had no means to determine if this wasn't something that was normal and cyclical, and had been happening for millions of years. Of course, that had no impact on the dramatic pronouncements. Turns out, this thinning is related to sunspot cycles (surprise!).
The bit about the whole 'disappearing ozone layer' that I find to be most interesting is related to the identified culprit - CFCs. You see Dow Chemical had a patent on the current CFCs that were being used in ACs and other industrial applications. Sadly for DOW, the patent was about to expire, so any corporation could have gone into business making them. Fortunately for DOW, they had a newly-patented substitute handy, and managed to get the government to essentially destroy potential competitors before they even got a chance to compete.
Crony capitalism is a great thing. If you're a crony capitalist, that is.