Here’s a topical story from the BBC website about a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which alerts readers to a record level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in oceans (see the charts below). What interested me more than the story itself, however, was an interesting exchange in the comments section. Here’s the exchange:
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Artemesia
9TH SEPTEMBER 2014 – 17:18
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767.AndyC555 -” Whatever happened to that hole in the ozone layer that environmentalists told us was going to kill us all with radiation from space back in the 1980s and 90s?”
It was closed, thanks to the Montreal Protocol 1987 and international co-operation. CFCs were banned
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100505-science-environment-ozone-hole-25-years/