The Importance of the Ozone Layer The February 17, 1992 edition of time magazine's cover story started like this: "The world now knows that danger is shining through the sky. The evidence is overwhelming that the earth's stratospheric ozone layer-our shield against the sun's hazardous ultraviolet rays-is being eaten away by man made chemicals far faster than any scientist had predicted." Now this is interesting rhetoric, but there is no evidence here to support this article at all. Where are the facts? The studies? What I will put before you is the facts, then make your own decision. In order to understand if the ozone laye