2012.09.29 - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Aerosol cans in the way back times used CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons, commonly used as refrigerants as well) as propellant. It was determined that CFCs in the atmosphere were causing the ozone hole. The entire world got together and banned CFCs as aerosol propellants and as refrigerants in 2010.

And it worked. The hole stopped growing, and in 2019, it got smaller.

All that said, the hole in the ozone layer doesn't effect rising sea levels.

World of Change: Antarctic Ozone Hole

In the early 1980s, scientists began to realize that CFCs were creating a thin spot—a hole—in the ozone layer over Antarctica every spring. This series of satellite images shows the ozone hole on the day of its maximum depth each year from 1979 through 2019.

TIL! Thanks for the informative links!