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Article: Eruption's threat to the ozone layer
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 14, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The atmosphere's protective ozone layer could be imperilled by
a large volcanic eruption anytime in the next couple of decades, a
Nobel prizewinning scientist has warned.
Global warming could pose an additional risk and increase the
rate at which ozone was being depleted, said Professor Sherwood
Rowland, from the University of California.
He correctly predicted, more than a decade before the hole in
the Antarctic ozone layer was discovered, that chlorofluorocarbons
(CFCs) could damage the ozone layer.
Professor Rowland, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
had some good news, however. Thanks to the 1987 Montreal Protocol
banning the production of CFCs, the international community is ...