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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @11:23AM
You seem to misunderstand. China does care about its own people. They care as long as they don't riot and complain too much. And China does care about other nation's futures too, as long as that future affects China's. That's why the world has invented multilateral agreements.
But because of fucking idiots in the world, this system can collapse. "Strong man" are these fucking idiots (like Putin, Trump, Erdogan, the idiots in Italy, Orban, Duterte, Xi, etc), yet people vote for fucking idiots. So instead of "hey China, fix your chlorine leaks as per some agreement XYZ or we'll have penalties as in that agreement", we'll have what? "fix it or war??" Kind of like having a nation without laws where all crimes are met with lynch mobs. Sounds fucking awesome.
and WTF? How did we get to this point with so many fuckers being leaders? Thank you Internet?