The ozone hole over the Antarctic is significantly smaller in 2025 than in previous years, ranking as the fifth-smallest it’s been since 1992, according to a new report by NOAA and NASA scientists.
The ozone hole reached its greatest one-day extent for 2025 in early September, measuring 8.83 million square miles, about 30% smaller than the largest hole on record in 2006.
The so-called “ozone hole” is not an actual hole in the planet’s ozone layer, but rather a large region of Earth’s stratosphere with extremely low ozone concentrations.
From what I recall, the alternatives to CFCs were cost effective (and possibly cheaper than CFCs?), which is why this ever worked at all. But maybe that was BS, I dunno.
Regardless, the fact is, we cannot fix a problem unless someone somewhere is getting rich from it.