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Read the article. It can be a manufacturing by-product. It's likely that there are unknown sources producing it as a product. If it was purposeful that would b
by Clent 4y ago
Read the article. It can be a manufacturing by-product. It's likely that there are unknown sources producing it as a product.
If it was purposeful that would be trackable.
- Supermancho 4y agoAssuming the global monitoring can track the source (if it was intentional or not), is not based on information from the article. > This is what happened a few years ago, when researchers detected high levels of CFC-11 in the atmosphere2, and traced them to eastern China3. They deduced the source on the basis of readings from monitoring stations in South Korea and Japan, reporting it in May 2019, and afterwards, levels began to fall. Scientists got somewhat lucky with CFC-11: monitoring stations equipped to detect that particular chemical happened to be located relatively close to the source. Maybe we just need to be lucky again?
- jchw 4y agoThe article implies something different: that it was lucky they were so easily able to track the first CFC-11 incidents: > Scientists got somewhat lucky with CFC-11: monitoring stations equipped to detect that particular chemical happened to be located relatively close to the source.