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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When CFCs drift up into the stratosphere ... the fingerprinting method to identify another anthropogenic signal: the effect ...

A recent increase in a number of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) poses a climate threat, scientists say. Five ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons significantly increased in the Earth ...

Emissions of CFC-11 began increasing after 2012 and appeared ... that were produced worldwide before the ban went into effect and are in foams as well as refrigeration equipment and fire ...

warn CFCs’ intense warming effect and the fact that the chemicals can linger in the atmosphere for 640 years mean processes that continue to relinquish CFCs should be scrutinised. The ozone hole ...

The impact of all five CFCs on the recovery of the ozone layer is still small. Nevertheless, we do not fully understand where they are coming from, so this could change in the future, and we should ...