October 19, 2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Reducing non-CO2 climate change agents such as black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as well as expanding bio-sequestration can forestall fast approaching abrupt climate changes, according to Dr. Mario Molina and co-authors in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The Montreal Protocol ozone treaty is the binding legal agreement exists that can cut HFCs now, and many alternatives to HFCs have already been developed and are on the shelf waiting for the right regulatory incentive from the Montreal Protocol to be deployed according to the authors....
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