Your Thoughts on the Great Ozone Debate?

Hrodvitnir asks: "Yesterday the BBC reported that the hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic is the largest on record. Today CNN says that it is recovering, or at least stabilized. Do we really know what's going on? Is this more bad science/false studies, or are they both partially right?"

Comments

Re:CNN: thanks to Ted Turner.

[demachina]

Two points:

- A key difference is previous administrations weren't squandering $300 billion in Iraq that could have been spent at home instead. Bosnia was way cheap by comparison.

- Its also a classic Bush defender tactic to say, its Clinton's fault or Clinton didn't fix it either. Damn Bush has been in office five years, I'm assuming he doesn't start taking responsibility for anything on his watch until 8 years in right?

- The Hurricane problem in the South wasn't anything like it is now during Clinton's years in office. After last year a thinking executive might have said, rather than squandering money in Iraq or buying biowarfare suits for the fire department in Podunk, Wyoming maybe we better improve our Hurricane preparedness.

You also chose to gloss over all the first part of my post. How the disaster was handled apart from neglecting the levees was 100% the responsibility of the Command in Chief and his agency FEMA. Or do you want to blame their piss poor handling of this on Clinton too.