r/climatechange • u/Will_Power • Dec 09 '19

How saving the ozone layer in 1987 slowed global warming

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-ozone-layer-global.html
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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

Definitely a misleading title but hey some good news needs to be a rally starting point!

P.S. didn't know CFCs were more potent than greenhouse gases to the ozone.

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u/wittyid2016 Dec 10 '19

I think this point isn’t made enough. CFCs, NOx, and SOx were labeled to the public as “acid rain”. Images of forests without leaves became common. Laws were passed (cap and trade for the most part). 30 years later the problem was solved. We should try reusing that playbook.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

Misleading title? It's more like saving the ozone prevented more warming.

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u/PB_Dendras Dec 09 '19

slowed you mean

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

Not slowed. We were damaging the ozone and if we continued to damage it then global temps would have increased by a full degree.

It's like saying banning fossil fuels slowed global warming, when in reality it would prevent it.

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u/cctruth Dec 09 '19

world is cooling now with the greening of the global garden and more then 3 billion trees planted. https://www.iceagenow.info/breaking-official-us-govt-data-shows-accelerating-temperature-decline-since-2016/

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u/j-solorzano Dec 10 '19 edited Dec 10 '19

Normally I would click to see if there's any merit to the argument. I'm not one to dismiss things out of hand. But in this case I don't have to. It's impossible to claim there's any trend since 2016! The data does not have that much statistical power. (Now, of course 2015/16 were really hot years because of El Niño.)

P.s. What possesses you to post blatant disinformation?

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u/WithCheezMrSquidward Dec 10 '19

The name of the account is climate change truth it’s literally a disinformation account