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Re:The Montreal Protocol was a landmark environmental success by mafro on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:55AM (#15339190)
So true. Being from the UK, I was used to seeing UV of 4 or 5 on the weather report. I assumed this was a 1-10 scale.

Then I got to Australia and UV is 13 or 14!

The US EPA scale runs to 11 [1].

[1] https://www.epa.gov/sunsafety/uv-index-scale-1

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Re:The Montreal Protocol was a landmark environmental success by imron on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:36PM (#15340252)
We dial it to 11, and then some!
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