Ozone Hole Getting Smaller

snark42 writes "According to Reuters and some other sources the hole in the ozone layer shrank 20% this year to a mere 9 million square miles. Of course scientists caution this would have to continue for at least a couple more years to be a trend or anything to get excited about."

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The Return of Cheap Freon!

[nurb432]

Perhaps they will start selling real freon again, instead of that expensive useless crap R134..

Oh, who am I kidding, the government release restrictions on an industry? They can keep prices artificially high due to regulation, and collect more taxes off the product ( and required "licensing" )

This 'discovery' wont do much for us other then give the scientists something else to debate..

Re:hrmmm

[DAldredge]

Please explain your plan to stop volcanos from erupting and spreading CFCs into the air.

TIA!

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020304volcano. html

Google for south pole related stories.

Of course

[Oligonicella]

"Of course scientists caution this would have to continue for at least a couple more years to be a trend or anything to get excited about."

I don't recall they're waiting a 'couple more years' before squealing that humans were responsible and linking it to the end-of-the-world scenarios.

intentsity

[Doc Ruby]

Exempting China from Kyoto lets American corporations manufacture there, keeping their costs low. That has some terrible effects on some parts of the American economy, but boy is it great for those corporations' particular economies. Too bad about that darned environment, but it isn't intentional, so it's OK, right?