SSDD
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Wasn't its disappearance going to kill us by now? This is the problem with climate "scientists." They are dishonest shills for the highest bidders.
Don't you know? Ten years of research and effort to identify and ban CFC's for the release of chlorine has slowly allowed the ozone to gradually heal. The problem is CFCs are so inert they stay around a long time. Had we not done that and the ozone gone away, no life could live above water in the unshielded UV light of the Sun.
We did this topic in the Enviro forum about a month ago... Never seen a decrease in the measured holes since the ban.. More recent thinking is that this is a "thermal safety valve" in the upper atmos.. Much like El Ninos are the safety valves for warming waters in the Pacific..
If "no life could live" with it at the time of the ban -- then we'd all be dead by now...
IN FACT -- the max diameters/depths of the holes stabilized BEFORE the ban had a considerable possible impact...
The graphs are in that other thread...
The "OZONE HOLE" scam was the pre-curser to the Global Warmists movement.
All very possible and likely. That not disputed. At the south pole, the angle of sun and depth of atmosphere minimize the effects of UV light. Problem is that we are talking about 2019 today. Possible destruction of the Ozone layer was discovered and cogitated beginning in the 1970s. Had they been right and not taken the efforts they did then, it could be very bad for today. Better to have acted and been wrong than to have not acted and been right. We can live without CFCs.
The team that "discovered" the ozone "hole" went to Antarctica expecting to find it. They hypothesized that it would be there because they thought that less incoming UV at the southern pole, and the elevation, and the temperature would result in a thinning, or outright absence of ozone. They were proved correct and then went to the Arctic and found the same thing only to a lesser degree...the differences being due to lack of any land mass and warmer temperatures...
Dupont bought a couple of politicians and hijacked the environmental movement in a successful effort to transform a perfectly natural phenomenon into a crisis that required the banning of an entire class of chemicals so that they could sell a chemical that they had a patent on but had no market for because of what it cost, and the fact that it wasn't as good as the old chemical that was already on the market.
There never was a crisis...there never was anything that there hadn't always been except for a manufactured alarm...