• PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    If refrigerant reacts with/eats away at the ozone layer, why is there such a big hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica?

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      2 months ago

      Gases we emit into the atmosphere are well mixed over the whole globe in a relatively short time span over a few years or faster. So these refrigerants are in the same concentration over Antarctica as over inhabitated land. However, the ozone depletion effect of the gases is dependent on a lot of factors. One of them are stratospheric clouds, which seem to be one reason for the hole above Antarctica.