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Earth's ozone layer shredded by massive solar flares, not human-made chemicals
Mar 25 2007, Irani

What tore the ozone apart in the Earth’s stratosphere? Human-made chemicals? True. But, not to the extend what a massive solar flare did in 1859! It all happened in the last 500 years by the largest solar flare that may have shredded the Earth’s ozone...

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