This reply is bullshit. The hole in the layer of ozone around the Antarctic - as is clearly shown on the map - clearly and succulently shows and explains why there has been such a dramatic increase in skin cancer in Argentina and Chile. And we, in the scientific community, have known this for the last decade. I suppose Edufer also believes that Global Warming is a "hoax"?Edufer said:It seems that the ozone hole scare is still in good health. They keep passing subtle missinformation (or shameless lies) as <i>"Ozone is vulnerable, though, to CFCs and halons being released into the atmosphere."</i>, without letting know the gullible people that CFCs and halocarbons are <B>INERT</B>, so they can't react with ozone. In any case, the ozone <B>MIGHT</B> react with chlorine, but <b>ONLY</b> on the surface of ice crystals in stratospheric polar clouds (SPC) over Antarctica, as demonstrated (back in 1988) by S. Salomon, R. Stolarski, et al, one of the teams trying to prove the dangers of CFCs to our stratosphere. (published in Science, 1988. I will give you the reference in a next post, if you are interested, maybe quoting the main conclusions of the paper.)
But the scare and the hoax must be mantained in working conditions, because the amount of money involved is huge. Presently, the production of CFCs is <b>well and alive</b>, esoecially in China and India (besides France and other western countries) and the black market created by the CFC ban is greater than the weapons trafficking, lagging not too far behind the narcotraffic business. Money talks ... and the fools listen.
I do not have time to read all the subsequent posts today but will respond this weekend.