Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are a class of synthetic chemicals ... Since the discovery of their detrimental effects on the ozone layer, their production and use have been phased out.

He immediately developed a model of this effect, which showed if there was ... They went public with their information, calling for a ban on CFCs. As the evidence backing their theory piled ...

CFCs began inflicting their harm almost immediately ... trying to imagine all the unintended secondary effects. But on some level, you’ve doomed yourself to chasing ghosts.

CFCs had punched a hole in the ozone layer over ... “That has had a really sobering effect, but up through the 1950s there were very few voices questioning the idea that progress was our most ...

However, emissions of a subset of five CFCs have risen since the ban took effect, according to the study, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. The study did not determine the source ...

It's not just carbon dioxide that causes climate change. Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, are a group of chemicals that were widely banned because of their effects on the ozone layer. Unknown sources are ...

While CFCs in the atmosphere might have similar effects on ground-level air pollution, the paper didn’t explicitly study them. One way to read the study is as another warning of how dangerous ...

CFCs were commonly used in refrigerants ... The amount of these gases emitted in 2020 would have an equivalent warming effect to the total carbon emissions for a country like Switzerland, he ...

The Montreal Protocol, the international treaty that went into effect at the end of the 1980s, called for countries to phase out the use of these CFCs. The Protocol is largely considered a ...

CFCs were once common in aerosols (Pictures: Getty/iStockphoto) In terms of the warming effect, the authors suggest this amounted to 47million tonnes of CO2, equivalent to 150% of London’s CO2 ...