{"id":91166,"date":"2019-05-22T21:27:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/we-finally-know-where-the-scandalous-ozone-destroying-chemicals-are-really-coming-from"},"modified":"2019-05-22T21:27:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:27:52","slug":"we-finally-know-where-the-scandalous-ozone-destroying-chemicals-are-really-coming-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/we-finally-know-where-the-scandalous-ozone-destroying-chemicals-are-really-coming-from","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Know Where The Scandalous Ozone-Destroying Chemicals Are Really Coming From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-where-the-scandalous-ozone-destroying-chemicals-are-really-coming-from3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been exactly one year since US scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-looks-like-someone-is-producing-an-internationally-banned-ozone-destroying-chemical-once-again\">reported a mysterious surge<\/a> in ozone-destroying chemicals, known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).<\/p>\n<p>Banned in 1987 under the globally signed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montreal_Protocol\">Montreal Protocol<\/a>, there was only one explanation: somewhere out there, in an unknown location, someone must have gone rogue, setting back progress on the ozone hole by a decade or more.<\/p>\n<p>After much speculation, the whereabouts and magnitude of these harmful emissions has been confirmed in scientific research. As earlier reporting in <em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-york-times-figured-out-mystery-source-ozone-destroying-chemicals\">had already suggested<\/a>, they seem to be coming from the northeast coast of mainland China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-scientists-know-where-all-those-ozone-damaging-chemicals-are-really-coming-from\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been exactly one year since US scientists reported a mysterious surge in ozone-destroying chemicals, known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Banned in 1987 under the globally signed Montreal Protocol, there was only one explanation: somewhere out there, in an unknown location, someone must have gone rogue, setting back progress on the ozone hole by a decade [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}