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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @11:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @11:05AM (#755566)

    No, you make trade agreements that force other countries to protect the environment. Seems a lot simpler than your "simple tariff". What "simple tariff" does is make everyone poorer for no reason whatsoever.

    Anyway, it's quite idiotic for America to push tariffs after becoming the defacto world reserve currency. The idiot-in-chief doesn't understand how America is becoming a loser as soon as others start to turn away from the dollar. The only friend America has remaining is inertia. Sooner rather than later China (or Euro if it gets its act together) will replace USD and America will become the has-been Russia - large military and nothing else.