Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Why You Don’t Hear About the Hole in the Ozone Layer Anymore" video.

  1. Er, no. The ozone hole repaired itself after we discontinued use of CFCs, much faster than the models predicted.
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  2. What happened with the Ozone Hole, is that the guys that won the Nobel Prizes put together a set of overhead projector slides, showing measurements of the ozone densities over the southern hemisphere over time. Simple, effective. Some scientists have been disappointed that similar presentations of the output of their chaotically complex (and sometimes, mathematically misleading) computer models have not had the same effect as these simple measurements. They're even upset and personally hurt that people don't recognize the absolute brilliance of their spaghetti code. Poor things.
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  3. Incremental improvement: no refrigeration (and the poor nutrition that leads to), fridges with poisonous compressor fluids, fridges with compressor fluids that aren't poisonous but cause environmental damage at end-of-life, fridges with compressor fluids that don't cause problems. Same deal: Walking, which limits peoples' productivity, lives, and freedom; horses, that can help us work and travel but take enormous dumps all over the place that breed diseases; internal-combustion cars, that help us travel and work but don't c**p so much New York needed to devote several city blocks to manure yards stacked dozens of feet deep, but the cars use leaded gasoline which cause diseases on a far less extensive basis; to cars that don't use lead in the gasoline anymore but cause some smog. All in all, our problems are getting smaller, not bigger, but we're panicking more. Why is that?
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