The CFC ban was successful, but it seems that remaining stocks are still being sold on the illegal market and that it's challenging to stop this illegal trade.
You seem to think Western nations are the primary contributors here. The reality is, it's countries like China, who don't care about such laws or treaties, who make up the bulk of the problem.
It is just amazing how the hole "grew" in 8 years, from 1979 to 1987. And then, there has been no change in 24 years, from 1987 to 2011, despite all that was done.
More incredible, though would be to expect the anomaly to be elsewhere but at the poles, since the formation of the ozone requires sun-rays, as explained in the article.
But what is really a revolution in Physics is how those sun-rays actually make a curve to enter the Earth by the south to cause harm to Australians and New Zealanders...
As anyone actually living on this planet may realize is that, because of the position of the sun and the planets in the solar system all aligned at the ecliptic plan, the sun in the southern hemisphere rises and sets from a northeast to a northwest position (opposed to the northern hemisphere, from a southeast to a southwest point).
So, unless the sunlight is doing big turns, it is impossible for any eventual anomaly in the ozone above Antarctic to have any relation to skin cancer in any country in the southern hemisphere, since the sun and the position of Antarctic and really at diametrical directions.
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From 2000: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8475-illegal-cfcs-impe...
And HCFCs, which don't do much to the ozone layer but which are potent greenhouse gases (much worse than CO2) are being similarly traded. http://eia-international.org/hcfc-phase-out-at-risk-from-ill...
I don't understand how you can possibly think that from what I wrote.
More incredible, though would be to expect the anomaly to be elsewhere but at the poles, since the formation of the ozone requires sun-rays, as explained in the article.
But what is really a revolution in Physics is how those sun-rays actually make a curve to enter the Earth by the south to cause harm to Australians and New Zealanders...
As anyone actually living on this planet may realize is that, because of the position of the sun and the planets in the solar system all aligned at the ecliptic plan, the sun in the southern hemisphere rises and sets from a northeast to a northwest position (opposed to the northern hemisphere, from a southeast to a southwest point).
So, unless the sunlight is doing big turns, it is impossible for any eventual anomaly in the ozone above Antarctic to have any relation to skin cancer in any country in the southern hemisphere, since the sun and the position of Antarctic and really at diametrical directions.