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Ozone Hole Getting Smaller

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the things-looking-up dept.

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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  1. hrmmm by rdc_uk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    20 years from now, we'll have discovered there's a natural grow/shrink cycle we never knew about...

  2. Pardon my ignorance. by Moby+Cock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This may be a stupid question *but*...

    Why can't we 'reseed' the ozone layer? We can make ozone in a lab, so why don't we get some high flying aircraft and strap some ozone filled bottles to the fuselage and start spraying? It'd be like dusting crops only a lot different.

    Although, it is good news that the hole is smaller.

  3. Re:The Return of Cheap Freon! by base3 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Interesting how Freon became dangerous right after DuPont's patent on it expired. There is nothing new under the Sun.

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