First, The European Space Agency reports that the ozone hole over Antarctica has shrunk by 30% this year. While this may be great news for the future of mankind, it's very distressing to global-warming fanatics - no crisis means no funding, and no one will care about them.
Of course, you can take it all with a moon-sized grain of salt, because everything we thought we knew about the ozone layer has recently been called into question. On the very year that the scientific community is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol (which essentially banned CFCs to protect the precariously delicate ozone layer), a German scientist, Markus Rex, has found that the breakdown of ozone happens at a very different rate than what we had thought previously.
"This must have far-reaching consequences," Rex says. "If the measurements are correct we can basically no longer say we understand how ozone holes come into being."In other words, scientists don't really have a clue about what causes the ozone layer to fluctuate [my guess would be the natural processes of the Earth, the Sun, and space, but that's just me].
The moral of the story is that when you hear hype about man-made global warming, just remember - scientists don't have a clue.
There's my two cents.
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