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horseren0ir t1_jbwa06n wrote

Reply to comment by Various_Oil_5674 in Massive wildfires that raged across southeast Australia in 2019–20 unleashed chemicals that chewed through the ozone layer, expanding and prolonging the ozone hole. A study describes how smoke combined with chlorine-containing molecules in the stratosphere to cause the destruction. by MistWeaver80

It started too after we got rid of CFC’s, I think it’s still on track to restoration by 2050, takes a while though

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Various_Oil_5674 t1_jbwbj2x wrote

CFCs, that's what it was. Thank you haha.

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NessyComeHome t1_jbwh7uy wrote

I took an EPA test to handle refrigerants.. Cfc's were horrible. 1 molecule of cfc would destroy 100,000 molecules of ozone.

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