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The ozone layer: the road not taken

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In evaluating the cost of phasing out chlorofluorocarbons, it pays to look not only at current damage to the ozone layer but also at what might have happened had our use of these chemicals continued unimpeded.

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  1. Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California, 92717-3100, USA

    Michael Prather

  2. AFEAS consultant at Ludwigstrasse 49, D-70771, Leinfelden Musberg, Germany

    Pauline Midgley

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California, 92717-3100, USA

    F. Sherwood Rowland

  4. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, USA

    Richard Stolarski

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Prather, M., Midgley, P., Rowland, F. et al. The ozone layer: the road not taken. Nature 381, 551–554 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/381551a0

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