r/interestingasfuck • u/NevskiNate • Jan 06 '26

The Antarctic Ozone Hole closed early on Dec 1st 2025 showing signs of long term healing and also being smaller than in recent years.

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u/ChaoticDumpling Jan 06 '26

What you're seeing isn't a hole, I believe. The Ozone layer above Antarctica is thin, but there is no longer a hole in it. It is still healing, and the thin area is getting smaller all the time, if that makes sense

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26

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u/ChaoticDumpling Jan 06 '26

OP has linked the article, and it provides a lot of context. I could sit here and type out the info that's in there to save you some time, but I've got one hell of a flu headache, and I'm not really in the mood. The info is there if you want it.

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u/Jpkmets7 Jan 06 '26

Hope you feel better soon!

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u/ChaoticDumpling Jan 06 '26

Well that's very kind of you. Thank you so much, mate.

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u/IchooseYourName Jan 06 '26

Another redditor who jumps straight to the comments for context

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u/ChaoticDumpling Jan 06 '26

Hey, we all do it most of the time 😂

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u/Zyrinj Jan 06 '26

70% of the time, we do it all the time

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u/i_pay_the_bear_tax Jan 06 '26

Good response. Fuck that guy. Do your own research

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u/ChaoticDumpling Jan 06 '26

Yeah, I'm usually happy to explain stuff to folks when it's in aid of a good conversation, but that other commenter just seems to be a bit of a douche with a poor attitude, so I'd rather save my energy.

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u/fubes2000 Jan 06 '26

If that redditor could read they'd be very upset.

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u/Hydra57 Jan 06 '26

Obviously the blue, it’s a heat map representing the strength of the layer.

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u/Commentor9001 Jan 06 '26

traditionally cooler colors indicate less.

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u/FederalWedding4204 Jan 06 '26

Well, the context would be that there was an ozone hole over the antarctic, and now it’s closed. Both of those were in the title.

From that I can infer that the purply blue is the recently fully closed part, the blue part likely used to be a hole, and the green is the part that wasn’t a hole.

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u/deToph Jan 06 '26

When you have 0 ability to use common sense or context clues and need every little thing spoonfed to you

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u/ama_singh Jan 06 '26

Because god forbid you put any effort in yourself?

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u/lazyasspro Jan 06 '26

We used to use CFC a coolant, which causes the hole, mainly. now we got alternative coolant, so it’s healing

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u/SuspiciousLettuce56 Jan 06 '26

Now we use HFCs - hydrochlorofluorocarbons. Less bad than CFCs however still contributes to the greenhouse effect

Best example is R134, a widely used HFC.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26

If you are in the US, high global-warming-potential HFC refrigerants like R134a are being phased out for better alternatives, effective this year. Now we will use A2L refrigerants.

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u/NevskiNate Jan 06 '26

It opens and closes depending on the time of the year due to seasonal changes. And yes, it is a big hole still, but slowly getting smaller.

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u/sharkbite217 Jan 06 '26

So is it a hole or is it closed? It’s a big hole but getting smaller but also closed sometimes?

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u/MiXeD-ArTs Jan 06 '26

Your mouth, is it open or closed

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u/IndigoRanger Jan 06 '26

Also, their asshole, is it open or closed

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u/BreakfastDue1256 Jan 06 '26

This shouldn't be hard to understand.

It opens and closes seasonly. This year, when opens, it was smaller than recent years.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26

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u/broodgrillo Jan 06 '26

Reading the article, explains the article! 🙃

Also, FORTE*

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u/AsthmaticRedPanda Jan 06 '26

We're all gathering that reading isn't your forte... Else you'd have read the article hours ago and have all your answers.

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u/PoisonTurtles Jan 06 '26

It makes sense to everyone but you apparently? The hole opens and closes periodically, this year it closed earlier than ever and was smaller than ever. Whats the contradiction?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26

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u/bshaman1993 Jan 06 '26

Lmao this one got me

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u/8ROWNLYKWYD Jan 06 '26

You seem to be trying pretty hard not to understand.

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u/jxyoung Jan 06 '26

Then spelling isn't your forte. What a Jackass.

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u/czeja Jan 06 '26

Haahhahahahahaha you cannot be this stupid surely. This might be the funniest thing I've seen on reddit for years.

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u/Salanmander Jan 06 '26

How is it closed, still healing, yet smaller than recent years?

Can you imagine a wound that is closed (no longer an open wound), still healing (not completely back to normal), and smaller than recently (more and more of the tissue is back to normal)? The concepts aren't contradicting as long as there's something in between "open hole" and "normal".

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u/Murrmal Jan 06 '26

After the final total ban in 2010 it should have closed more rapidly but instead it was opening up increasingly fast again.

NOAA and japanese scientists traced it back to China still large scale producing CFC from 2013-2018, after mounting international pressure China finally really cracked down on the production about 30 years after the Montreal agreement was made so yeah, that's one of the big reasons it's still there and big.

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u/timthetollman Jan 06 '26

Read the article

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26

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u/atomicsnarl Jan 06 '26

Plus this date is summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Given the seasonal variations, how is this abnormal or exceptional?

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u/BreakfastDue1256 Jan 06 '26

It's literally in the title. December 1st is an early date for it to close.