Who believes that global warming and the hole in the ozone layer are related?

Question

glad to hear that most people don't believe this rubbish. the question was prompted by certain contributors who partly based their arguments that climate change is a rubbish theory on the two completely unrelated phenomena being interlinked. if only the climate change problem could be ameliorated just as easily!!

Answer 1

Actually there are some subtle interactions. Some climatologists believe that the ozone hole contributes to the cooling over Antarctica. And global warming may be affecting the recovery of the ozone layer.

Wikipedia actually has a good section on the linkages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion#Ozone_depletion_and_global_warming

But, as Trevor says, there's little effect on the big picture.

Answer 2

Global warming has it's own causes and consequences as does ozone depletion.

Some of the contributory factors are the same - primarily that the Chlorofluorocarbon gases (CFC's), Hydrofluorocarbon gases (HFC's) and Hydrochlorofluorocarbon gases (HCFC's), along with some other gases, are both ozone depleting substances and contributors to global warming.

Ozone depletion does, in a very small way, contribute to global warming. For all but detailed scientific or technical purposes, the contribution is small enough to be ignored.

Answer 3

The hole in the Ozone layer is shrinking. And this relates to the global warming theory how?

Answer 4

They're not, except that ozone is a greenhouse gas.

Clorofluorocarbons (CFCs) cause the hole in the ozone layer.

Greenhouse gases cause global warming.

Completely different.

Answer 5

Only morons.