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Scientists Race To Find Who is Pumping a Dangerous Gas Into the Atmosphere (theoutline.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: When the research was published in Nature on May 16, it was like a bomb dropped. A greenhouse gas is billowing into the atmosphere from a source somewhere in East Asia that no one can identify at a rate scientists have never before seen, and it's ignited a scientific dash to get to the bottom of it. All countries are supposed to comply with the rules laid out in the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which banned the production of CFCs -- chlorofluorocarbons, which deplete the ozone layer and contribute to global warming -- with only temporary exception of a few economically developing countries. If everyone fulfills their end of the deal, the amount of CFCs in the atmosphere should gradually wane over the course of several decades. CFC levels plummeted through the 1990s, and then stagnated between 2002 and 2005. But in in 2014, mysterious toxic plumes of CFC-11 -- a type of CFC -- began to drift across the Pacific Ocean. Stephen Montzaka, a chemist who studies and monitors CFCs for The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), was shocked.
All of my cars and refrigerators still require R-12 you intolerant bastard. I mean, not that I've ever had to replace any of it but without team India/China how could I? Congratulations you've saved the environment by mandating something that wastes more electricity/fuel and isn't released into the atmosphere unless things go very wrong.
Nowhere does it state that CFC-11 is a greenhouse gas, and no attempt to imply it is made either. It is just referred to as "mysterious toxic plumes"--utter sensationalist rubbish.
And why don't you learn to do a little research?
How about the Newsweek article referring as it to be something that depletes the ozone?
And TOXIC GAS? It's just a CFC. Did anyone even bother looking up the MSDS? Inert.
The fake editors here no NOTHING about anything, and they are wrong about everything. They were installed to push the agenda of the new BizX Arab overlords.
During the Obama administration, global warming alarmists have infiltrated the NOAA and began altering the records to lend a false legitimacy to global warming. I was hardly the only who noticed that the NOAA had been exaggerating climate trends especially after recent changes of seasons.
So when you see any alarmist story from NOAA, you should be skeptical because NOAA has lied to us before.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10