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Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing by throwaway5752 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:41PM (#18395888)
How much CFC production was accounted for in the models that predicted the O3 layer healing? How much production can be handled and what is current production? Those are the answers one would have to have before writing this off.
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Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:45PM (#18395911)
> How much CFC production was accounted for in the models that predicted the O3 layer healing?

I thought ozone layer density (is that the right term?) was directly measurable?

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc...

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Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing by kaybe on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:52PM (#18395970)
Yes, and it is not even that hard. But we cannot measure the future, thus we use models to predict, and those need inputs (such as emitted CFCs) which can be wrong.
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Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:53PM (#18396302)
Ah, right, yes, that makes sense now. Thanks.
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Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing by InclinedPlane on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:55PM (#18395984)
Before writing what off?
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