Is a ban on CFC's (aerosol cans and refridgerants) an effective approach to the ozone hole problem?

Answer 1

Yes, the hole is now slowly closing and the ozone problem is no longer a major problem. The current ozone hole is expected to close within 80 years (subject to change due to unexpected circumstances)

Answer 2

I believe it is, because when we used to use sprays with CFC's in them, or other propaganda, we used to be doing more harm then good to our Ozone Layer. I picked up an atlas of the future one day, and I looked at the prediction of the Ozone layer in 2050....and let me tell you, it was scary. It said that if we didn't stop or at least cut down dramatically on the use of CFC's and other things of the sort there will be a gaping hole in the Ozone Layer and it will heat the surface of the Earth all over the world, hence Global Warming. So, yes, I do think that banning the useage of CFC's is ans effective approach to an environmental change to save the world around us.

Answer 3

If cap & commerce fails, they'll say that we've not completed sufficient and we would desire to do extra. If we can't decrease CO2 anymore, we desire extra government "green" jobs and extra taxes on evil firms and the wealthy, because solves each thing. Then while it seems to be a hoax and anybody knows it, they'll rapidly deny each thing and cover it away like they did with CFC's - you on no account hear anybody in politics or the media conversing approximately it. worldwide warming ... I mean, climate substitute, is an entire rip-off. The chinese language government unfavourable any regulations on CO2 until they found out they'd boost their ability that way, and now they're thinking approximately it. The ozone hollow has no longer something to do with CFC's. it appears that evidently over the sea between South u.s. and Antarctica, the place there is only approximately no marketplace or pollutants. It additionally is going by using organic cycles in length, that's laid low with the solar, and hurricane interest - lightning creates ozone 3 O2 -> 2 O3 and UV radiation destroys it.

Answer 4

To be fair, it was never really a hole, but more of just a thinning.

But yeah, it's good. Since the ban, Ozone depletion has actually started to reverse, a large bit. Quite the excellent example of how we can all stop Global Warming if we just put the same effort into it that we put into fixing the ozone layer =)

Answer 5

yes. the agreements between governments in the 1980s and the 'voluntary' phasing our of CFCs by the developed nations has resulted in improvements tot eh polars 'holes' in the ozone layer.

it also stands as an example of how the willingness to develop or use existing environmentally friendly technologies can work once all the mind-numbing debate and denial is over with.

Answer 6

Not really.

It is a 'feel good' measure, as long as airplanes are allowed to continue polluting the environment with CFC's at will.

For example, there are 50 shuttle flights DAILY (less than 500 miles) between the SF Bay area and the LA area. If this traffic were rerouted to high speed rail lines, the effect on CFC pollution would make a real impact.

Answer 7

It may seem like a small change but every effort made to eliminate sources of contamination to our atmosphere or ozone layer does help. Anything hazardous to the ozone is also hazardous to our lungs and should be eliminated any way.

Answer 8

OBVIOUSLY! it repaired the HUGE hole in the O3 layer directly over Antarctica after CFC's were banned in 1996.

Answer 9

Haven't you heard?

Worrying about ozone is so....80's. You are required to worry about global warming now. No, no, not global cooling -- that was the 60's. And zero population growth the 70's. But now, it's global warming that will kill us all.

Keep up, now.

Answer 10

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