What happend to the ozone layer,i remember a few years ago we where all supposed to fry,is it still a problem.

Question

What happend to the ozone layer,i remember a few years ago we where all supposed to fry,is it still a problem.

Answer 1

same as the ice age a few years before the ozone hole was " found"  And probably the same with the warming the man made warming I mean I believe its natural.

Answer 2

well i dont believe that we are going to fry until about a million or over years. but yes global warming is still a problem. anarctic animals are going insticnt still. glaciers are melting. and the world is getting hotter. which is why we need to start taking car pools and less factories to save the earth.

Answer 3

soon as God gets his magnifying glass back.

Answer 4

Personally I would not call a .4 degree increase --- "frying".

Answer 5

The scare is over.  We've spent the money to replace and retrofit perfectly good equipment for more expensive equipment and less effective refrigerants.  All to find out, the ozone layer was fine.  Y2k didn't work, terror alerts didn't work and acid rain didn't work.  Doesn't look like AGW is working either,

People are going to have to come up with a new scare.

Answer 6

Now THIS is a very interesting question.

About 20 years ago (notice the timing) we were told that the hole in the ozone layer was getting bigger, and, as you say, we were all going to fry if we didn't do something about it. We were told that CFC's (chloro-flouro-carbons) were disslving the ozone and that we either had to stop emissions of CFC's or start using a higher rating SPF sunblock.

The answer to this was to stop using CFC's... predominently used as coolant in fridges and air conditioners. So... the industrialised countries stopped using CFC's and the hole in the ozone layer gradually started closing. The thing I never really got about this was.. how did stopping CFC emissions in the Northern Hemisphere fix the Ozone hole over the South Pole? and why didn't all the Antarctic Ice melt while the hole was there?... anyway, I digress.

The real interesting thing here is the timing. Global Warming started about 20 years ago right?... we've just celebrated the 20th anniversary of it's discovery haven't we?. Well... this coincides allmost exactly with the closing of the hole in the ozone layer.

Now Ozone, being higher in the atmosphere than the greenhouse gasses is a crucial point here. Up untill the late eighties the greenhouse gases could escape through the ozone hole, but when we fixed that, then the greenhouse gasses were trapped and started to build up... hence global warming.

The correlation is very strong and it's "almost certain", in fact I'll bet my hockey stick, that the cause of Global Warming is actually ACO... Anthropogenic CFC Ommissions.

I'm sure I can find 2,500 people from somewhere who, without conducting any research of their own, ( the IPCC doesn't actually DO research, check out their mandate http://www.ipcc.ch/about/index.htm ) will offer the same opinion as me.

However, even if I can actually find 2,500 self interested people to back me, I doubt I can ever turn this into a global movement, as re-introduction of CFC's isn't going to buy me the 'green' vote... which is politically what's driving the whole Global Warming machine.

Answer 7

We didn't fry, although the hole is still there over Antarctica.  But the fad kinda died off, and a new one had to be found.  In a few years global warming will be replaced by something else.

Answer 8

Laws banning the production and use of Ozone damaging chemicals were passed, other chemicals to do the same jobs were invented, and the problem is basically solved.

Answer 9

no because the hole is a lot smaller