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Still fresh off their "victory" over CFCs from the Montral Protocol, the global warmers think they can pull the same routine with carbon.
What Kind of Global Warming Skeptic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Then he moved to the University of Irvine, and then there, he decided to join this investigative group to ask themselves a question: what would happen to the industrial chemicals that went to the atmosphere, those chemicals used in the industry of air-conditioning and refrigerators, the so - called CFCs, the chlorofluorocarbons?
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The compounds, commonly referred to as CFCs, are known to damage the ozone layer.
FOXNews.com 2011
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The chlorofluorocarbons, commonly known as CFCs, were once widely used in a variety of applications, especially as refrigerants, because of their inertness.
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The hole developed in the 1970s after damaging chemicals known as CFCs were released into the atmosphere.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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The last chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants - chemicals known as CFCs, which hurt the Earth's atmosphere - were removed from the carrier Carl Vinson, according to an announcement from Naval Sea Systems Command.
Navy Times - News 2009
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The hole developed in the 1970s after damaging chemicals known as CFCs were released into the atmosphere.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2009
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The hole developed in the 1970s after damaging chemicals known as CFCs were released into the atmosphere.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2009
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The reality is that the link between consumption of various industrial chemicals, such as CFCs, and the destruction of the ozone layer, suspected from the late 1970s, was finally proven in the mid/late 1980s, leading to the negotiation of the Montreal Protocol, probably now the most successful international environmental agreement.
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Vaughan says that as Co2 emissions and greenhouse gases such as CFCs warm the climate, Antarctica's geography is changing dramatically.
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