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Feature interview: Madoff docuseries director Joe Berlinger

First Move with Julia Chatterley

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Is There a Recovering of the Ozone Layer?

The ozone hole will recover in around back to the 1980 level in about the year 2066 or so. One pound of, or one kilogram of CFC-12 is equivalent to thousands of pounds of CO2. So it's a very powerful greenhouse gas. We are avoiding warming of the earth's surface from these CFCs. There was a second class of gases called hydrofluorocarbons which were also powerful greenhouse gases. They don't deplete the ozone layer but they were the replacements for the CFCs as refrigerants and so forth. In the Montreal Protocol, add an amendment to control hydrofluorOCarbons. And we expect they will peak sometime in

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