Good News: The Ozone Hole Has Stabilized
Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 13:40
in Earth & Climate
The public has long suffered from green fatigue, where constant doomsday prophecies by environmental groups have become background noise, but there is good news too. It just has to come from the world of science instead. After the detection of the ozone-depleting properties of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the 1970s, data from satellite measurements in 1985 were startling; a huge hole had been discovered over the Antarctic in the ozone layer that protects the Earth from dangerous, carcinogenic UV rays and it was unclear how much was natural and what had been caused by man. read more