I'm the type of person that when the government states a problem I usually don't believe them, so I always do my own research instead of just listening to the media or the government. I used to work in the heating/cooling field and in order to use freon I had to take a class and a test on the ozone, I couldn't believe some of the things the E.P.A. said, so this is one subject I did my own research on.

What do you think?? I personally don't believe it. I will be happy to debate this one! Is there a hole or a growing hole in the ozone layer?

Well hello fellow republican. I really do believe that their is a hole in the o/zone layer. What do the satellights do? take picutres and warp them?

I just noticed my mistake, I belive there is a hole but don't belive it is a problem or getting worse.

Are we to blame for ozone depletion? as the Environmentalists want us to think. Is the ozone layer really getting worse?

Yes, I believe that there is a hole in the ozone layer. But it isn't getting worse, in fact a newspaper said it's getting better. The Ozone would rebuild itself. Also if you think about it, the Ozone layer could be a heatsink if. People worry about global warming, but when an Ozone hole is created, I would think the he would rise and escape from the hole. Also I think the Ozone is a natural reaction when oxygen hits the sun rays (I don't know all the details about it) and it is made that way.

Interesting subject.

I always wondered why we couldn't just add a bit of ozone to all of the aerosol cans and Freon. That would fix it, right?

Really, though, there is a hole up there. The hole is actually changing rapidly right now.

In the past year, the hole has split. Now, instead of being a large hole over the South Pole, it is two smaller holes over the South Pole.

The area covered by both the holes combined is less than the single hole of a year ago.

Some scientists say this is great news, and shows that the atmosphere is improving.

Others, sensing a threat to their job security, say that this change is insignificant, even though it is the most significant happening in relation to the ozone hole in many years.

Still, as far as I know, one can find many scientists that say the ozone hole is a man-made, destructive creation, and you can find just as many who state that it is a naturally occurring event with little influence from humans.

It's definitely interesting.

Mike

There is a hole in the ozone layer and it had been getting bigger. Over the past few years, it split into two smaller holes and seems now to be getting a bit smaller.

The question of whether or not we are to blame was settled, I thought, in the early nineties. In 1991, NASA launched the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in an attempt to determine once and for all if humans were responsible for causing the hole in the ozone layer. The data relayed back to NASA clinched the matter beyond all reasonable doubt. According to a Reuters report from 1994, entitled "Ozone Hole: NASA Puts It Squarely on Us; Satellite Data Cites Synthetic Chlorine", Dr. Aidan Roche, the Lockheed scientist whose team analyzed the data, claimed that "There is a very clear link between man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and destruction of the ozone layer."

NASA, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the World Meteorological Organization all now believe that, yes, we are responsible. The three scientists who first sounded the alarm in the early eighties, F. Sherwood Rowland, Paul Crutzen, and Mario Molina, received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1995 for their work in relation to ozone depletion. Indeed, it is now accepted that we are responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer by everyone from Thomas Karl to the executives of Dupont - except, of course, by the razor-sharp mind of Rush Limbaugh.

It is known that there is a hole (or there are holes) in the ozone layer. It is known that synthetic chlorines destroy ozone. It is known that humans release synthetic chlorines into the atmosphere. It is known that synthetic chlorines, by definition, do not exist in nature. It can be observed that a decline in the release of synthetic chlorines appears to parallel a replenishment of the ozone layer. You tell me.