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https://hakaimagazine.com/news/by-fighting-the-ozone-hole-we-accidentally-saved-ourselves/>
"In 1985, the British Antarctic Survey alerted the world that in the atmosphere
high above the South Pole a giant hole was forming in the Earth’s protective
ozone layer. World leaders swiftly assembled to work out a solution. Two years
later, the United Nations agreed to ban the chemicals responsible for eroding
the layer of the stratosphere that shields Earth from the sun’s ultraviolet
radiation. Known as the Montreal Protocol agreement, it is still one of the
UN’s most widely ratified treaties.
The Montreal Protocol was a win for diplomacy and the stratosphere. But
unbeknown to its signatories at the time, the agreement was also an unexpected
ward against climate catastrophe. As new research shows, the aptly named
ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) that created the hole over Antarctica are
also responsible for causing 30 percent of the temperature increase we saw
globally from 1955 to 2005."
Via
The Fixer May 24, 2023:
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/a-canadian-river-rises-from-the-dead/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
