Has the Ozone "hole" been fixed?

Question

We haven't heard much about this since the onset of the 'Global Warming' scare. Has this 'hole' been fixed or does the idea of rising waters destroying coastal cities inspire more fear?

Answer 1

There never was a "hole" in the ozone layer. Ozone is created and destroyed by the forces of nature. Because of it's location relative to solar radiation, ozone is sparse in the polar regions.

Using selected "evidence", politicians and scientists who had a vested interested, tried to make the case for ozone depletion based on human activity.

Apparently they have lost interest in that. Now, global warming is all the rage. Global warming is based on the idea that specific sites on the globe are recording temperatures slightly higher than a hundred years ago. What they fail to mention is that many of these sites were in rural areas a century ago. Today, they are in cities and built-up areas, which naturally are warmer.

The hole in the ozone and global warming are two examples of junk science.

Answer 2

Wow I am glad nobody on here knows science.

#1 your science teacher doesn't know what he is talking about. Yes other gases filter other wavelengths, but ozone filters some very high energy wavelengths in the UV that let me assure you you don't want to be hit by. It's not such an issue in the Northern hemisphere since the hole is so far away, in Antarctica.

#2 The ozone destruction is caused by CFCs. There is no debating it. The science is well founded and even a non-scientist could understand it. The proposed mechanisms and balance of chemical species in the Antarctic atmosphere explains well the. So, these CFCs catalyze the destruction of ozone. While there would be some it speeds it up at an enormous rate. There are a lot of other unique polar conditions that contribute but for human influence it is CFCs. The good news is these have been banned. And it is a retarted argument that the politicians wanted this . . . it actually upset many people and it ends up costing a lot more. Sounds like a plan to me? With the banning slowly the ozone hole will fix but the species in the atmosphere will take hundreds of years to fully disappear.

#3 Additionally the dark and cold temperatures give a situation in which ozone is preserved naturally. Because as you said though it is a cycle the "normal" ozone destruction step in this cycling is also be light. So sorry your theory of the Dark causing it are out. Along with a much larger list of scientific evidence that I am considering you have not read. I will concede there may be some depression but not on this scale.

#4 Interesting note is that the ozone hole forms every spring and then disappears fully every year, a lot of people don't realise. Bottom line is that it has been getting smaller, but year to year is a question mark.

Answer 3

What hole??

There was never a hole, just a region where there was less ozone overhead than elsewhere. Discovered over the Antarctic during the southern hemisphere spring. Pretty much what any sane person would have expected to find, considering ozone is made by the action of solar UV on atmospheric oxygen, and it's a reversible reaction so there's always some ozone being converted back to regular oxygen. These are natural processes. Little wonder that not much would be found in a part of the atmosphere that had been in total 24 hr darkness for several months.

I can only assume that this unevenness in the global distribution of ozone was discovered as soon as there were instruments capable of detecting it, and that someone involved in the discovery had a flash of inspiration as to how to achieve instant fame and fortune: Call it a hole. That's a lot scarier so it sells a lot better. And let the account infer that this "hole" had just appeared, as opposed to having just been discovered. There's a millon pounds worth of difference between the two.

Never mind that over the following decades thousands of people would die of cancers caused in part by lack of exposure to sunlight. (An Internet search on this subject will give you hundreds of hits, many of them from highly respected sources.) Never mind the growing fridge mountains piling up as people struggle to work out how to dispose of an old fridge without allowing any of the ozone-damaging chemicals to escape. Never mind that providing refrigeration for the poorest parts of the world has been made even more difficult than it was, due to all sorts of new restrictions. Never mind that ozone-friendly aerosols release gases that are many times more effective than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet.

I think someone said that fame and fortune come at a price. The tragedy here is that the recipients of the glory are not the ones paying the price. That is paid by millions of people they will never meet: victims of cancer, starvation and floods.

Answer 4

The ozone hollow self heals by spring on the pole. The ozone layer has been extra-or-a lot less gradually depleting because the 1700s, CFCs were in simple terms one wrongdoer that we honestly further, that Nature is particularly slowly destroying interior the ozone layer.... the in effortless words position she will be in a position to. they're ballparking extra or less one hundred years because we grew to develop into conscious of the end results of CFCs and all started reducing their use. by then the degrees will be negligible, assuming we do not commence making and utilizing them lower back, because they're "affordable"" and "probability-free".

Answer 5

The ozone hole were all at the poles and affected no body. The solar winds collide with the earth's magnetic poles and that happens very high up. Yes it is totally natural and out of mans control.

Answer 6

No it can't be "fixed", at least not with human intelligence alone. We need God to help us with that one.

Answer 7

no we can't fix the o-zone but it isn't that harmful because the other atmospheres protect us and not just the o-zone

Answer 8

no ,it hasn't fixed.