Science
Ozone-destroying CFCs could make late-21st-century comeback – Livescience.com
The oceans are ready to give back your 1980s hair spray.
The global oceans are gearing up to spray all that 1980s hair spray back in our faces. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the aerosol chemicals that tore a hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer within years of their mass production, are set to make a comeback in the late 21st century, in a process accelerated by climate change
, researchers say.
The Montreal Protocol banned the use of CFCs worldwide in 1987, after researchers discovered that CFCs had damaged the ozone
layer that protects life on Earth…
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