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Scientists: Chemical Used in Air Coolers Needs Replacing voanews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from voanews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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,
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One of the most common ones, with the unfriendly name R-410A, is 2,088 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. So an essential way that people are staying cool is making the world warmer and more unstable.