Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer Sean Davis

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Jan 29, 201900:09:40Science & Medicine

The Montreal Protocol proved that the world could come together and take action on climate change. Thirty years after the world's most successful environmental treaty was signed, atmospheric scientist Sean Davis examines...

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