Whatever happened to the ozone hole?
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It's still alive and well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ozone_hole.
Interesting consideration: the "hole" has been increasing in size every year since it was discovered (yes, recent reports to the contrary were premature). We still don't *really* know if it is a naturally occurring phenomenon, if it is cyclical and will decrease in size without any human intervention, or if it is the result of human (over)population.
What we know for certain is that it's there, it's still growing, and it's potentially dangerous to humans.
its still up there. just no one's caring.
It went up my mother-in-laws butt!
It is getting bigger
It shrank when cloroflourocarbons were outlawed...
It is now filled with the missing honey bees.
Now it's no longer an issue. :)
Actually, the 'scientists' exhausted all of their grants on that project, and now have moved on to global warming.
I'm guessing when those grants run out, the next 'sky is falling' panic will be global cooling.
the cave man from geico stole it.
Its still there but the novelty has worn off.
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It closed back up.
People have been destroying it. Because they don't care what will happen to hem in the future. Those B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S
It's all better now... or I think the focus has left that little hole and gone on to global warming!!
its still there
people got bored of it so the government decided to find a new "problem" to scare and control people with ."if this is not taken care of soon ,we will all die.... vote for me!"
what a loada sh1t
It couldn't compete with the hole in George Bushs' head, so it gave up.
Yes although people on this list joke about this will someday they will look back and think d.a.m.n. why didn't me or the president stop caring about terrorist and think about the damn planet
i'm sure they doing something about it. but they don't spend that much money on it. but it's there.
What happened to the activist for it?
CFC's were banned globally and it's been shrinking now for the last couple years.
The ozone hole is still there and it would be premature to say whether it's growing or shrinking. What we can say for certain is that the rate of ozone depletion has significantly declined since the banning of ozone depelting substances (ODS).
One problem of ODSs is that they keep on damaging the ozone layer for a long time after they enter the atmosphere. Firstly, they take about 15 years to move into the upper atmosphere and secondly they keep on destroying ozone for approx 100 years.
All those CFC's that were being released in the 1980's and earlier are still up there in the atmosphere and still destroying the ozone layer. If the ozone layer wasn't self-repairing then we should have seen it continue to deplete at the rate it was doing previously. This isn't happening. Some years it expands, some years it contracts, the general trend is more or less steady.
This is good news, the ozone layer is still being damaged by the OSD's but it's repairing itself at the same time and the damage isn't getting worse. In the decades to comes the OSD's will weaken and the ozone layer will continue repairing itself. In time it will restore itself to it's natural level (provided we don't mess it up again).
Al Gore invented a way to patch it.
I dunno..but I heard Paris Hilton made a video about it
Filled up with greenhouse gases.
The ozone snake went into it.
sorry shyhawk the global cooling was in the 70's, they will have to come up with some other line of crap to reel in all the suckers.
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