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Ignored? Perhaps not. But make it the big scare story that provided loads of "scientists" with full income for years and years? Often repeating each others' data over and over without ever really doing any real science?

Those that did the science (some decades ago) often got it wrong, or failed to truly evaluate what the data said. Hypothetical models were made and they still got it all wrong. Then satellites started to actually measure depletion.

And that had the soothsayers out in their droves. And the money went into thinking and not experimenting and measuring.