Yeah! George W!! Else why would he drop the scientific objection to Kyoto and concentrate on an ineffective economic objection? Dubya's cave-in on Kyoto is only a matter of time.
We're doomed...
Or only the experts that don't agree with the television?
By Stephen Lunn, Tokyo correspondent
29 may 02 Ozone Hole to Mend
THE hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica will disappear by 2040, Japanese scientists forecast yesterday, offering a far more hopeful timeframe than previous research predictions.
Using a supercomputer to model future global atmospheric conditions, scientists Tatsuya Nagashima and Masaaki Takahashi from Tokyo University predicted that the next 15 years will see little or no change in the size of the ozone hole before a slow improvement begins in the late 2030s. From that point there will be a sudden increase in the amount of ozone in the stratosphere, leading to a full recovery by about 2040.
The pair said the scientific community now accepted that legal restrictions on chlorofluorocarbons, previously found in products such as aerosols and refrigeration products, had been effective in undoing the decades of damage done to ozone levels, including the creation of a massive hole in the ozone layer in the 1980s.