[Malcolm]

I'm not anti-environment, but I have never seen any documentation/proof that there was NOT an ozone hole at the South Pole to begin with. If elimation of R-12 is the answer, I'm all for it, but it would be nice if I could see the "before" info, that demonstrates beyond a doubt, (sorry, but I distrust anything from the anti-Capitalist crowd, aka the "Greens").

[cogitator]

but it would be nice if I could see the "before" info, that demonstrates beyond a doubt,

I'm not sure what you're looking for. If you want to see what the measurements of the ozone layer (in Dobson units) looked like before the impact of CFCs began to take effect, here's the data:

This is from The History Behind the Ozone Hole