HomepageThe chemical society and its discontents: Ozone layer edition
sadele2The accidental #climate #scientist who uncovered an unexpected force of #globalwarming in the 1970s
"The young scientist had discovered that #chlorofluorocarbons - #CFCs - then widely used in the manufacture of refrigerators, air-conditioning units and spray cans, had a significant greenhouse effect."
“I was just a postdoc immigrant from India. I didn’t know if I should tell #NASA about this or not. I just sent the paper off,” Ramanathan recalled."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/science/climate-crisis-crafoord-prize-veerabhadran-ramanathan
Kevin Karhan 
@swoop I still find it insulting to the physics to use precious heavy metals.just to boil water and make a turbine go brrr...
- Besides pebble bed reactors are a bs design and given how "P.R." #China was unable to make precise roller balls gor ballpoint pens until not so long ago, I doubt they fixed designs proven to be extremely unreliable…
It's cheaper and overall better to invest in Renewables given that it'll be always easier, faster and more sustainable to install the same power in #renewables than #nuclear by virtue if being simpler!
- In my eyes #NuclearPower is as much of a wrong development as #Tetraethyllead, #CarCentricSuburbs, #LithiumIonBatteries and #CFCs like #CFC11 & #Freon…
Adamas NemesisThink CFCs were bad? Meet BFCs! But in the hands of my timeline, it makes for something more optimistic...and exotic.
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/10/24/beautiful-and-terrible-as-the-dawn/
This post's featured image is John Martin's "The Great Day of His Wrath".
#worldbuilding #scifi #sciencefiction #environment #ozone #ozonedepletion #ozonelayer #CFCs #BFCs #alternatehistory
formuchdeliberationOzone recovery could trigger 40% more global warming than predicted | ScienceDaily…
As the #ozonelayer recovers, it’s also intensifying #globalwarming . Researchers predict that by 2050, ozone will rank just behind #carbondioxide as a driver of heating, offsetting many of the benefits from banning #CFCs [...] Source: Ozone recovery could trigger 40% more global warming than predicted | ScienceDaily
Ozone recovery could trigger 40% more global warming than predicted | ScienceDaily…
As the #ozonelayer recovers, it’s also intensifying #globalwarming . Researchers predict that by 2050, ozone will rank just behind #carbondioxide as a driver of heating, offsetting many of the bene…
moozerer #CFCS flyttet væk fra forsvarsministeriet og #FE?
https://www.cfcs.dk/da/nyheder/2025/cfcs-er-en-del-af-samsik/
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛There's a natural variation in ozone in the atmosphere, but CFCs and other substances were reducing ozone levels and expanding the seasonal ozone holes over the poles. The problem was real and it was getting worse, because CFCs were produced for a reason: It was really useful and cost-effective stuff.
Banning ozone-depleting substances for use as coolants, fire supressants, aerosol propellants and other applications was very successful, and after four decades we are now more than halfway to recovering to natural ozone levels.
A few years ago there was briefly some illegal production of CFCs, which halted the recovery, but it was tracked down and halted, and we are back on track.
nasa.gov/missions/aura/nasa-st…
bbc.com/news/science-environme…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_de…
#OzoneLayer #OzoneDepletion
#OzoneDepletingSubstances #ODSes
#chlorofluorocarbons #CFCs
Öko-Institut.#CFCs and other non-CO2 gases are a major contributor to #climatechange. @Tradewater detects such gases and destroys them – for example in a project in Honduras. https://www.oeko.de/en/ecowork-magazine/a-good-balance/the-honduran-tanks/ #climateprotection #climateneutrality #climateresponsibility #compensation #energytransition
David HembrowA blog post about buying a new appliance. I don't do this often. In general I try to repair things instead of buying new. But in this case the old refrigerator (which was in our home when we moved here 17 years ago) was using an absurd amount of electricity. Our consumption will be about 600 kWh a year lower due to replacing an old fridge and an old freezer with a new A-rated appliance.
https://davidhembrow.blogspot.com/2024/06/saving-energy-with-new-appliances.html
#savingenergy #energyefficiency #refrigerator #cfcs #kitchen #kitchenrenovation #diy #savingmoney
https://davidhembrow.blogspot.com/2024/06/saving-energy-with-new-appliances.html
#savingenergy #energyefficiency #refrigerator #cfcs #kitchen #kitchenrenovation #diy #savingmoney
&2i"...chlorofluorocarbons are very strong greenhouse gases. If we hadn’t pulled back on them, we’d be looking at an extra degree of warming by 2050, and then, for sure, 2C would have been out of reach. But we checked a degree off by dialling down on chlorofluorocarbons."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/08/susan-solomon-solvable-how-we-healed-earth-climate-scientist
#climateCrisis #CFCs
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/08/susan-solomon-solvable-how-we-healed-earth-climate-scientist
#climateCrisis #CFCs