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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford cover image

The Inventor Who Almost Ended the World

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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CFCs and Ozone Depletion

All ozone depletion figures to date are computer projections based on a series of uncertain assumptions. The first CFCs to be produced decades earlier would only just have reached the stratosphere. Tantalizing hints of evidence began to emerge, but you really needed a long-term series of data points to establish there was a trend.

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