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Re:Record number of environmental activists murdered by parsimo2010 on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:14AM (#28509595)
Ozone isn’t a halocarbon and it doesn’t “reach” the stratosphere, it’s formed there. It’s also not a mystery; the upper ozone layer is formed from atmospheric oxygen and radiation from the sun. Since your predicating information is false then whatever conspiracy theory you’re implying probably isn’t true.

And while I’m sure some companies profited from prohibiting CFCs, stopping ozone depletion is one of the few things humanity has done with measurable effects. If a few companies made money from it that’s fine. It would be great if we could tie a profit motive to fixing climate change.

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Re:Record number of environmental activists murdered by anticodon on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:28AM (#28511213)
Since your predicating information is false then whatever conspiracy theory you’re implying probably isn’t true.

Halocarbons are heavier than air, they cannot travel up to stratosphere which is 10 to 50 km up in the air. Which is predicating information about why CFCs were bad.

If a few companies made money from it that’s fine. It would be great if we could tie a profit motive to fixing climate change.

Exactly. Both ozone depletion theory and current climate change theory are making rich countries richer and poor countries poorer. Which brings the question: maybe it's actually the point of these theories?

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Re:Record number of environmental activists murdered by philipkglass on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:48AM (#28512986)
The Earth's atmosphere is homogeneous up to about 100 km from the surface:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosphere

That includes the ozone layer.

Gases don't stratify in the lower atmosphere. Pure argon is heavier than oxygen and nitrogen, but it does not sink down from the atmosphere to form a concentrated surface layer. Neither do CFCs.

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Re:Record number of environmental activists murdered by bildung on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:01AM (#28509519)
You seem to have mixed up your conspiracies, DuPont itself was the one calling ozone depletion "a science fiction tale … a load of rubbish … utter nonsense", according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion
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