politics & rants robchurch on 31 May 2007 09:28 pm
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a chlorofluorocarbon!
So, the United States has joined the rest of the world in dealing with climate change. I suppose there’ll be a lot of sniping and accusations of hypocrisy and so forth over the next few weeks.
Why bother? The fact is that, now the US recognises that, whether or not we caused it - and while we might not have caused all of it, we certainly haven’t been helping the situation - climate change is going to affect us in an adverse fashion…now we have another collaborator that’s going to help us work towards a sensible resolution that benefits the ecosystem we all live in.
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on 01 Jun 2007 at 9:02 am 1.Stephen Turner said …
Is it too pedantic to point out that CFCs are implicated in the destruction of the ozone layer, not in climate change? And international agreements dealt with the problems of CFCs many years ago (although people in the southern hemisphere will be living with the effects for a few more years yet).
on 01 Jun 2007 at 11:10 am 2.robchurch said …
Not at all. In this case, the post has nothing to do with CFCs; I just wanted a catchy title.