"Manufacturing Consensus: The Climate Pseudoscience Playbook That Began with the CFC Scare"

In the mid-1980s, the world was introduced to a new kind of existential threat: the “ozone hole.”  - AhmadFaizVolvoKlasik - 

• Scientists claimed that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)—industrial chemicals used in refrigeration and aerosols—were breaking down ozone molecules in the stratosphere, exposing humanity to dangerous ultraviolet radiation.
• But here’s the catch: this wasn’t discovered through direct atmospheric observation. 
• It was inferred from lab experiments and computer models. 

The reaction—UV light breaking CFCs to release chlorine atoms—was real in a beaker. 

But the leap from lab bench to global catastrophe was pure simulation...