If the United States every really got behind Global Warming, we would reduce our CO2 output worldwide within a year or so. The reason this hasn't gone forward, and there is still so much opposition to it is because for various reasons the US is opposed to pursuing any real strategy toward renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gasses.
When the States got behind the hole in the ozone layer and CFCs things were banned and reduced in less than a year. The US was a true leader here, and it fricking worked amazingly well. "The initial concern about the ozone layer in the 1970s led to a ban on the use of CFCs as aerosol propellants in several countries, including the U.S. However, production of CFCs and other ozone-depleting substances grew rapidly afterward as new uses were discovered. Through the 1980s, other uses expanded and the world's nations became increasingly concerned that these chemicals would further harm the ozone layer. In 1985, the Vienna Convention was adopted to formalize international cooperation on this issue. Additional efforts resulted in the signing of the Montreal Protocol<http://www.epa.gov/ozone/intpol/index.html> in 1987. The original protocol would have reduced the production of CFCs by half by 1998. After the original Protocol was signed, new measurements showed worse damage to the ozone layer than was originally expected. In 1992, reacting to the latest scientific assessment of the ozone layer, the Parties to the Protocol decided to completely end production of halons by the beginning of 1994 and of CFCs by the beginning of 1996 in developed countries. More information on the phaseout of ozone depleting substances is found here.<http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/phaseout/index.html> Because of measures taken under the Montreal Protocol, emissions of ozone-depleting substances are already falling. Levels of total inorganic chlorine in the stratosphere peaked in 1997 and 1998. The good news is that the natural ozone production process will heal the ozone layer in about 50 years. More information on the current state of the ozone layer is found here. <http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/currentstate.html>" On 17 September 2013 13:29, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > In this case the 'we' is the United States...that is not enough, though. We > need to do more. We need to persuade other countries to do more. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367158 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
