{"id":1200,"date":"2017-05-22T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:58:07","slug":"the-foggy-future-of-refrigerants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"The Foggy Future of Refrigerants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/476039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/04\/December_2%2C_2012_-_Colorful_Freon_tanks%2C_ready_for_recycling._%288250066769%29.jpg\/360px-December_2%2C_2012_-_Colorful_Freon_tanks%2C_ready_for_recycling._%288250066769%29.jpg\" width=\"197\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freon tanks await recycling. Image courtesy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stable, nontoxic refrigerants changed the world, transforming food storage, expanding Sun Belt populations, even helping early movie theaters succeed. But they also wrecked the ozone layer \u2014 Earth\u2019s shield against harmful ultraviolet radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, as stockpiles dwindle \u2014 and prices rise \u2014 due to phase-outs set by the\u00a0Montreal Protocols 30 years ago, \u00a0the future of Freon and its successors remains in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/476039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As Stockpiles Dwindle, Freon Prices Rise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stable, nontoxic refrigerants changed the world, transforming food storage, expanding Sun Belt populations, even helping early movie theaters succeed. But they also wrecked the ozone layer \u2014 Earth\u2019s shield against harmful ultraviolet radiation. Today, as stockpiles dwindle \u2014 and prices rise \u2014 due to phase-outs set by the\u00a0Montreal Protocols 30 years ago, \u00a0the future of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Foggy Future of Refrigerants<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,60,185,12,54,94,14,4,290,18,74,3,13,291],"tags":[376,641,866,72,17,61,1264,1265,1266,5,1267,25,867,305],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-chemistry","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-consumer","category-electromagnetism","category-engineering","category-green","category-history","category-law-2","category-maintenance","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","category-treaties","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-carbon-footprint","tag-cfcs","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-food","tag-freon","tag-hcfcs","tag-hfcs","tag-inventors","tag-montreal-protocol","tag-nature","tag-ozone","tag-ultraviolet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}