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Supposedly 'safer' synthetic gases replacing ozone-destroying CFCs could be a climate risk factor

2014-04-12 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Tech Times: Little-studied class of synthetic gases, considered 'safer' for Earth's ozone layer, could still be a risk in climate change, MIT scientists have warned. Pictured here is one of the testing stations in the AGAGE global system, located on Cape Grim in Australia Synthetic gases developed as a "safer" replacement for chlorofluorocarbons which caused the hole in our planet's ozone layer above Antarctica can still represent a risk, MIT scientists say. When chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, were phased...

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