What Ever Happened to the Ozone Layer?
1st October 2009
It’s still a problem. As of a few weeks ago, the “hole”—which isn’t so much a gap in the ozone layer as an area of seasonal thinning—is even bigger than it was at the height of the ozone panic in the 1980s. (At the moment, it spans a patch of sky almost the size of North America.) That said, the ozone layer is in much better shape today than it would have been had the world not taken decisive action 20 years ago. It’s just that the damage we did in the old days is going to take a long time to heal.
And yet we don’t see anything about it in the news. Why not? Bush left office, that’s why not. Funny how all of these earth-shattering kabooms aren’t worth worrying about when Democrats are in office.