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More Evidence Points to Chinese Origin for Ozone-Depleting Chemical Emissions

posted by chromas on Monday October 29 2018, @05:32PM   
from the if-it-walk-like-a-duck dept.

takyon writes:

More Evidence Identifies China as The Source of Mysterious Ozone-Destroying Emissions

For years, a mystery puzzled environmental scientists. The world had banned the use of many ozone-depleting compounds in 2010. So why were global emission levels [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0106-2] [DX] still so high?

The picture started to clear up in June. That's when The New York Times published an investigation into the issue. China, the paper claimed, was to blame for these mystery emissions. Now it turns out the paper was probably right to point a finger.

In a paper [open, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL079500] [DX] published recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, an international team of researchers confirms that eastern China is the source of at least half of the 40,000 tonnes of carbon tetrachloride emissions currently entering the atmosphere each year. They figured this out using a combination of ground-based and airborne atmospheric concentration data from near the Korean peninsula.

Previously: Someone, Somewhere, is Making a Banned Chemical that Destroys the Ozone Layer
Illegal Chinese Refrigerator Factories Are Selling Banned CFCs

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• Re:Careful! (Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday October 30 2018, @01:09AM

  by edIII (791) on Tuesday October 30 2018, @01:09AM (#755455)

  Fascism -

  n. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

  Environmentalism -

  n. Advocacy for or work toward protecting the natural environment from destruction or pollution.

  Sulla -

  To me there is no connection between environmentalism and fascism in either direction. Because saying there is is just as stupid as saying there isn't. (bold for emphasis)

  How is just as stupid to state no connection between the two, as it is to state there is a connection between the two? That statement makes no sense. One does not necessarily imply the other. Those stringent socioeconomic controls will be to the benefit of the corrupt few at the top, that dictators reward for their political support, not necessarily environmental benefits. Would environmental regulations act as controls that could be abused with totalitarian agendas? Sure. That still does not make environmental regulations intrinsically Fascist. That will entirely depend upon the dictator and the feasibility of enacting such controls, which could raise costs for those he/she needs political support from. So basically, unless Hitler engages in a Final Solution campaign against the "titans of industry", or strong-arms the shit out of them, he would have just as hard of a time today pushing environmental regulations. Again, why? How does controlling the environment, in a way to support and nurture it, further the goals of a Fascist government and those in power? Why is it so obvious that Fascism leads to Environmentalism?

  Which brings us to dictator Trump. He's not an environmentalist, while clearly he is a belligerent, racist, nationalist, if not outright Fascist. If there were an actual connection between tyranny, Fascism, and environmentalism, then why has Trump disarmed, and all the but shut down, the EPA?

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