The Incredible Shrinking Hole

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May 22, 2006 • 8:56 am PDT
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Hopefully, this wont totally ruin the small amount of momentum that fighting climate change has built up over the past few months. But a report out of Japan suggests that the world has reduced hydrocarbons enough that the hole in the ozone layer is slowly going to start closing in 2020, and should be nice and snug by 2050. Nothing about what is going to happen in the next 14 years, while the hole is as big as it ever has been. Probably nothing So, just go about your business and everything should be fine in a few years. Not suspicious at all.

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