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Scientists Detect Possible Illegal Emissions of CFC-11
Mysterious rise in emissions of ozone-damaging chemical
Scientists have detected an unexpected rise in atmospheric levels of CFC-11, a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) highly damaging to the ozone layer. Banned by the Montreal Protocol in 1987, CFC-11 was seen to be declining as expected but that fall has slowed down by 50% since 2012.
Researchers say their evidence shows it's likely that new, illegal emissions of CFC-11 are coming from East Asia. These could hamper the recovery of the ozone hole and worsen climate change.
An unexpected and persistent increase in global emissions of ozone-depleting CFC-11 (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0106-2) (DX)
Someone, Somewhere, is Making a Banned Chemical that Destroys the Ozone Layer
Emissions of a banned, ozone-depleting chemical are on the rise, a group of scientists reported Wednesday, suggesting someone may be secretly manufacturing the pollutant in violation of an international accord.
Emissions of CFC-11 have climbed 25 percent since 2012, despite the chemical being part of a group of ozone pollutants that were phased out under the 1987 Montreal Protocol.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Thursday May 17 2018, @12:23PM (7 children)
You okay buddy? Did you forget to take your meds?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday May 17 2018, @12:48PM (1 child)
I suspect a temporary drop in the mains' frequency.
Power starvation will do this to a bot - I hear the feeling is close to erotic asphyxiation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Touché) by LoRdTAW on Thursday May 17 2018, @01:12PM
Ah so he's jacking on again.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 17 2018, @06:43PM (2 children)
You just stigmatized the mentally ill
-- SJW
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Fluffeh on Thursday May 17 2018, @10:54PM
Lets not make everything about you =)
*sips coffee*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @12:53AM
I would hope a mentally ill person could appreciate the humor knowing firsthand how the brain can betray a person.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday May 17 2018, @08:50PM (1 child)
which factoid is wrong, according to you?
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday May 18 2018, @01:48AM
However, the confidence that many people put in psyche meds is very very inappropriate.
I was suicidally depressed two years ago. There's not much that medicine can do for that; if one would be unsafe to wait for TWO WHOLE MONTHS just to check to see whether a particular antidepressant will actually work - most of them don't, not for me, not for anybody - then the only alternative is shock treatment.
I tried two other ADs before the one I'm on now worked. That mean I lived with crippling depression for six months!
And every day of those six months I really *did* take my medicine.
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