No offense, Philip, but whoever wrote that article is very short of facts. I'll name a few.
1) The use of CFC's was NOT banned in 1987. FACT: CFC's are still available for purchase today (in the United States). Their use has been restricted, and their manufacture has been banned (only in Montreal Protocol countries) since January 1, 1996. Mexico is due to quit production soon, but South American countries still produce it, legally and illegally. Believe it or not, of all the things smuggled into the United States, drugs are first on the list, and R-12 is SECOND! 2) CFC's WILL be in the atmosphere a lot longer than 20 or 30 years. R-12, also know by its DuPont name as "FREON" (the main CFC used in history), has an atmospheric lifetime of 130 years. 3) While I have read much implicating CFC's in the depletion of the ozone layer (which is still a theory), I have never read anything about the burning of hydrocarbons contributing to it. Adding to 'global warming', yes, but depleting the ozone layer? 4) There is as big a difference between "ozone layer depletion" and "global warming" as there is between concrete and applesauce. In other words, they have nothing in common. The author CONSTANTLY confuses the two subjects, and treats them as one-and-the-same. So, in a nutshell, the author makes such blatant errors in factual contents that I can't even begin to take his personal theories or opinion seriously. Sferic
