This is why you don’t hear about the hole in the ozone layer anymore — and here’s the lesson for us

[rangerrebew]

This is why you don’t hear about the hole in the ozone layer anymore — and here’s the lesson for us today
Story by Ben Stern • 10h ago
 
When’s the last time you heard about the ozone layer? Or about the hole in the ozone layer? For most people, it’s been years or even decades since the topic has crossed their minds.
 
And there’s a good reason for that — it’s because human cooperation and swift policy change were extremely effective in fixing the problem.
 
The ozone is an invisible layer of gas in our atmosphere that protects us from damaging, cancer-causing radiation given off by the sun, basically acting as the Earth’s sunscreen. Without it, life on Earth would be extremely vulnerable. So in the 1980s, when it was discovered that a hole was forming in the ozone layer, it was a big deal.

The hole was forming because people across the world were using man-made chemicals that ate away at this natural barrier, primarily chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). CFCs were mostly used for refrigeration and in aerosol sprays. But as the hole in the ozone layer grew, so did many people’s concern over it.

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[Smokin Joe]

The 'hole' that never was. It had thinned, but my understanding is, that like so much in nature, the atmospheric concentration of ozone over the least populated continent on Earth varies over time. It goes up, it goes down, and opportunists catch the down trend and scream "The sky is falling".

When the natural cycle continues (and goes into an upswing) they take the credit (after messing with your life), and if it keeps going down, they claim "it would have been so much worse if we hadn't...".

It's some of the most pernicious bullshit on the planet, because it takes decades to disprove them, if that can even be done.

It's as if little Johnny in Hardscrabble, South Dakota is told "If you quit picking your nose...then fewer people will starve in Africa." If fewer, indeed do starve, then some one can say "See? I told you so!" If more starve, "Well, consider how much worse it would have been..."

Nonsense.

[Bigun]

The 'hole' that never was. It had thinned, but my understanding is, that like so much in nature, the atmospheric concentration of ozone over the least populated continent on Earth varies over time. It goes up, it goes down, and opportunists catch the down trend and scream "The sky is falling".

When the natural cycle continues (and goes into an upswing) they take the credit (after messing with your life), and if it keeps going down, they claim "it would have been so much worse if we hadn't...".

It's some of the most pernicious bullshit on the planet, because it takes decades to disprove them, if that can even be done.

It's as if little Johnny in Hardscrabble, South Dakota is told "If you quit picking your nose...then fewer people will starve in Africa." If fewer, indeed do starve, then some one can say "See? I told you so!" If more starve, "Well, consider how much worse it would have been..."

Nonsense.

And the DuPont family got even richer.

[Smokin Joe]

And the DuPont family got even richer.

Before the ban, a tank of R-12 was $99.00.
Two weeks later, when the ban had gone into effect, you could still get one, for $999.00.

I knew that was going to happen, should have bought half a dozen and scalped them to mechanics for half price...

But for a bit, the most lucrative smuggling conducted at our Southern border was Freon, not drugs.