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The infamous hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica may have caused warming in southern Africa over the past two decades, researchers say.
Since the early 1980s, when it was first noticed, a hole in the ozone layer opens up over Antarctica every year, decreasing ozone concentrations there by as much as 70 percent. The cause is human-produced chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which once were heavily used in aerosols and refrigeration. Now, researchers have found that the ozone hole may be linked to warming in southern Africa…
