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China has continued to leak CFCs despite the ban.
by thebooktocome 7y ago
China has continued to leak CFCs despite the ban.
- wcoenen 7y agoCFCs in the atmosphere are still dropping. (The news was that the rate at which CFCs disappear has slowed down a bit, and some are pointing at China for that.) I'd say the policy was pretty effective.
- thebooktocome 7y agoI don't think China deserves the benefit of the doubt on this topic. "From the Korean and Japanese data, we used our models to show that emissions of CFC-11 from north eastern China had increased by around 7,000 tons per year after 2013, particularly in or around the provinces of Shandong and Hebei," said Luke Western, a University of Bristol atmospheric modeler. "We didn't find evidence of increasing emissions from Japan, the Korean peninsula or any other country to which our networks are sensitive." https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/health/china-cfc-pollution-environment-intl-scn/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/health/china-cfc-pollution-en...
- wcoenen 7y agoOK, the emissions were indeed confirmed to be coming from China. Fortunately they are tracking down the CFC producers now and shutting them down: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/china-makes-arrests-shuts-down-rogue-chemical-factories-that-spewed-banned-ozone-depleting-gas?fbclid=IwAR2D_XkH2BtI20r1AeessWBVp8uMXyIWpe5L4wQ1FZAPaWUreQjuwoszVU4 https://nationalpost.com/news/world/china-makes-arrests-shut...