I seriously doubt it was a fired-up plant that manufactured the uptick.
More likely, I wonder if their model considers the natural decay of other chlorofluorocarbons, like R-115, R-114, or, counterintuitively, R-12. It's probably reasonable to expect that as those compounds break down, that R-11 could be an intermediate step.
Crushing up old closed-cell foam, old cars, old refrigerators, and old industrial plants are all possibilities if the above is not what's actually happening.
It's remarkable how we as a society have declared victory on our ozone problem, when in reality, it's not been fixed. Did you know that the UV index outside can actually go way above 12, like 45? Nobody measures this, but it happens.
Spending all day at the beach with no sunscreen hasn't always been insane, just since we started our experiment with refrigerants.
In the study they considered the destruction of things like foam and old refrigerant systems and concluded there was too much material for that to be the source.
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I seriously doubt it was a fired-up plant that manufactured the uptick.
More likely, I wonder if their model considers the natural decay of other chlorofluorocarbons, like R-115, R-114, or, counterintuitively, R-12. It's probably reasonable to expect that as those compounds break down, that R-11 could be an intermediate step.
Crushing up old closed-cell foam, old cars, old refrigerators, and old industrial plants are all possibilities if the above is not what's actually happening.
It's remarkable how we as a society have declared victory on our ozone problem, when in reality, it's not been fixed. Did you know that the UV index outside can actually go way above 12, like 45? Nobody measures this, but it happens.
Spending all day at the beach with no sunscreen hasn't always been insane, just since we started our experiment with refrigerants.
In the study they considered the destruction of things like foam and old refrigerant systems and concluded there was too much material for that to be the source.
Huh?!