Refrigerants are chemical fluids that have made air conditioning and refrigeration possible, but they are hundreds or even thousands of times more powerful at warming the planet than carbon dioxide, the most notorious greenhouse gas.
  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    We solved the ozone layer issues from refrigerant by moving from CFCs to HCFCs then HFCs. That didn’t reduce the greenhouse effect though.