Nobody knew about it. It wasn’t on the cover of Time magazine, it didn’t involve oil tankers, spotted owls, Polar bears, pseudo hippies protesting in Oregon, or California fruit flies. All it took was the right people in the right place at the right time to figure out that something wasn’t as it should be. This is an example of real science discovering a serious issue along with finding both the cause and the remedy.
British scientists Joseph Farman, Brian Gardiner, and Jonathan Shanklin of the British Antarctic Survey discovered the Ozone hole over the Antarctic in 1985. It was NASA who discovered the cause* – CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons). Once the word got out and all the real honest-to-goodness proof was laid out for everyone to see the world acted swiftly. In 1987 twenty-five nations signed the Montreal Protocol (which set limits on the production of CFCs) and eventually 168 nations followed suit and signed on. The result of this action has reduced the amount of CFCs in the atmosphere that has led to a slow but effective reversal in the ozone hole.
This is what happens when a problem is found by trained and qualified professionals whose findings are backed up by real tangible proof in the form of actual factual evidence – the right people make the right decisions and action is taken. It only took 2 years from the discovery of the hole in the Ozone Layer to have global action taken to begin the ‘recovery’ process. The fact that there is so much hemming & hawing, debating and lack of committal or consensus surrounding 'anthropogenic global warming' that's been going on for so long should tell you something about both the quality of the facts that support it and those who are proselytizing it.
British scientists Joseph Farman, Brian Gardiner, and Jonathan Shanklin of the British Antarctic Survey discovered the Ozone hole over the Antarctic in 1985. It was NASA who discovered the cause* – CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons). Once the word got out and all the real honest-to-goodness proof was laid out for everyone to see the world acted swiftly. In 1987 twenty-five nations signed the Montreal Protocol (which set limits on the production of CFCs) and eventually 168 nations followed suit and signed on. The result of this action has reduced the amount of CFCs in the atmosphere that has led to a slow but effective reversal in the ozone hole.
This is what happens when a problem is found by trained and qualified professionals whose findings are backed up by real tangible proof in the form of actual factual evidence – the right people make the right decisions and action is taken. It only took 2 years from the discovery of the hole in the Ozone Layer to have global action taken to begin the ‘recovery’ process. The fact that there is so much hemming & hawing, debating and lack of committal or consensus surrounding 'anthropogenic global warming' that's been going on for so long should tell you something about both the quality of the facts that support it and those who are proselytizing it.
Editor’s Note: No documentaries, Academy Awards, Oscars, Grammy’s or Nobel prizes were harmed during the writing of this article.
* - In 1930 English physicist Sidney Chapman formulated the first photochemical theory for the formation and decomposition of ozone in the atmosphere. In the mid 1970’s scientists Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland expanded on Chapman’s research which allowed NASA to fully grasp the nature of the problem.
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