![](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://cctubes.com/video/how-studying-venus-saved-earth/&media=https://cctubes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-studying-venus-saved-earth.jpg&description=Captions provided by CCTubes - Captioning the Internet! Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, seemed too good to be true when they were first created, and before long astronomers studying Venus' atmosphere discovered what could go wrong with this "miracle molecule."
Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister
----------
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
----------
Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George
----------
Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow
----------
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow
Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow
----------
Sources:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v249/n5460/abs/249810a0.html
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v249/n5460/pdf/249810a0.pdf
https://amazon.com/Billions-Thoughts-Death-Brink-Millennium/dp/0345379187/
https://amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Dot-Vision-Future/dp/0345376595/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1995/press.html
http://www.ozonelayer.noaa.gov/science/basics.htm
http://theconversation.com/what-venus-has-taught-us-about-protecting-the-ozone-layer-9200
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0469(1973)030%3C1437%3APOTVA%3E2.0.CO%3B2
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19720021198
http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/cfcs_checklist
https://www.mt-oceanography.info/science+society/lectures/illustrations/lecture35/cfc.html
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v379/n6565/abs/379526a0.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/antarctic-ozone-hole-healing-fingerprints/
http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1486&context=gjicl
http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/chemical_management/ozone/files/pamplet/panel/08e_basic.pdf
http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-molina#page=2
https://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_5_1.htm
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.608.8539&rep=rep1&type=pdf
http://unep.ch/iuc/info/ozone/backgrounder.htm
http://www.earthresource.org/campaigns/capp/capp-styrofoam.html
http://apps.sepa.org.uk/spripa/Pages/SubstanceInformation.aspx?pid=120)
Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, seemed too good to be true when they were first created, and before long astronomers studying Venus’ atmosphere discovered what could go wrong with this “miracle molecule.”
Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister
———-
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
———-
Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George
———-
Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow
———-
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow
Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow
———-
Sources:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v249/n5460/abs/249810a0.html
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v249/n5460/pdf/249810a0.pdf
https://amazon.com/Billions-Thoughts-Death-Brink-Millennium/dp/0345379187/
https://amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Dot-Vision-Future/dp/0345376595/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1995/press.html
http://www.ozonelayer.noaa.gov/science/basics.htm
http://theconversation.com/what-venus-has-taught-us-about-protecting-the-ozone-layer-9200
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0469(1973)030%3C1437%3APOTVA%3E2.0.CO%3B2
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19720021198
http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/cfcs_checklist
https://www.mt-oceanography.info/science+society/lectures/illustrations/lecture35/cfc.html
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v379/n6565/abs/379526a0.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/antarctic-ozone-hole-healing-fingerprints/
http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1486&context=gjicl
http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/chemical_management/ozone/files/pamplet/panel/08e_basic.pdf
http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-molina#page=2
https://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_5_1.htm
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.608.8539&rep=rep1&type=pdf
http://unep.ch/iuc/info/ozone/backgrounder.htm
http://www.earthresource.org/campaigns/capp/capp-styrofoam.html
http://apps.sepa.org.uk/spripa/Pages/SubstanceInformation.aspx?pid=120
