Yes, the ozone hole has grown larger. No, it doesn't mean that humans are off the hook for ozone depletion.

Total ozone concentrations in the atmosphere over Antarctica in early October, as determined using satellite data. The blue shows where concentrations were low enough to qualify as an 'ozone hole.' (Source: NASA Earth Observatory) The "ozone hole" over Antarctica grew 22 percent this year over 2014 — finishing out the season as the fourth largest since the start of the satellite record in 1979. Concentrations of ozone in the stratosphere over Antarctica also were lower in 2015 than in most other years. In other words, this year's hole was relatively broad and deep. This has compelled at least one professional doubter of humankind's impact on natural systems to raise questions about our role in depleting the Earth's ozone layer. As Steve Goreham, author of "The Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania," has put it, "the longer the hole persists, the greater the likelihood that the ozone ...