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The Montreal Protocol has been a massive success and was even strongly supported by Reagan (possibly due to his own skin cancer scare, according to one article). Though I'm highly skeptical it could make it through today's political system in the US.

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Nah I think it could pass today. What set it apart was there was an equivalent cost chemical to switch to. It would be kind of like if there were a different liquid hydrocarbon than gasoline that cost the same, doesn't emit CO2, and only took minor tweaks to the engine design to switch to.

Yet I see the “do your own research!” crowd now reference the ozone hole as another example when a cabal of evil scientists came up with a cash grab that the mainstream media terrified everyone with for no reason, and “now no one even talks about it!”.

Yeah, there are a lot of crazies, but there are also a lot of vacation property owners, tennis players, golfers, etc. and saying, truthfully, that no one will be able to do anything outside again, even with sunscreen, nobody will come rent your properties in Florida to go to the beach again, and the solution doesn't cost anything, it should pass.

And yet those same people out right deny that climate change, and its accompanying sea level rise, is a myth. You'd think the wealthy property owners and governor of a state where it's most valuable economic sectors are on the coast and a mere 10 feet or less above sea level would behave more rationally about the preventable danger that has been predicted for decades, but alas.

I guess they're banking on selling their five million dollar beach home to Aquaman.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3047/

You probably meant to write that differently. Denying that something "isn't a myth" is affirming that it is a myth.

How does the Big Hat lobby fit into this?

That's silly, the ozone hole goes from high latitudes to low, and was bigger in the southern hemisphere. Therefore was going to affect Florida well after it affected most other places.

OTOH Florida is full of people who deny global warming. Even though Florida actually is ground zero for coral bleaching, increased strength of hurricanes, and sea level rise.

People act on what they connect with for whatever combination of reasons. This seldom matches what they logically SHOULD connect with.

Was it?

"Two additional regions of Asia were sources of banned ozone-destroying chemicals"

https://research.noaa.gov/2022/03/09/two-additional-regions-...

Yes, because despite there being setbacks, the ozone layer is still healing! The hole is getting smaller

> was even strongly supported by Reagan

Since everything Reagan did was wrong... :-/

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