Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1061 - Who is pumping dangerous gas into the atmosphere?

https://theoutline.com/post/4708/montreal-protocol-vienna-convention-noaa-nasa-ozone-layer-hole-cfc?zd=1&zi=t4jfitvl

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1061 - Who is pumping dangerous gas into the atmosphere?

Hi Mom,

I need a quick post, so I do not fall farther behind. This post serves the purpose well. It's another Slashdot post, but unlike yesterday, I am not reprinting the originating article.

Still, this text is just enough to get the base understanding of what looks to be a very serious problem.

Just another domino toppling over the in the long sequence that spells out D-O-O-M-S-D-A-Y.

Scientists Race To Find Who is Pumping a Dangerous Gas Into the Atmosphere (theoutline.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:00AM from the closer-look dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report:When the research was published in Nature on May 16, it was like a bomb dropped. A greenhouse gas is billowing into the atmosphere from a source somewhere in East Asia that no one can identify at a rate scientists have never before seen, and it's ignited a scientific dash to get to the bottom of it. All countries are supposed to comply with the rules laid out in the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which banned the production of CFCs -- chlorofluorocarbons, which deplete the ozone layer and contribute to global warming -- with only temporary exception of a few economically developing countries. If everyone fulfills their end of the deal, the amount of CFCs in the atmosphere should gradually wane over the course of several decades. CFC levels plummeted through the 1990s, and then stagnated between 2002 and 2005. But in in 2014, mysterious toxic plumes of CFC-11 -- a type of CFC -- began to drift across the Pacific Ocean. Stephen Montzaka, a chemist who studies and monitors CFCs for The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), was shocked.

A visualization of CFCs in regions around the globe in 2016, with darker colors indicating a higher amount of CFCs. Nature

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 1063 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1806.01 - 10:10

NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.