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Article: A lethal filibuster. (unified national policy on chlorfluorocarbons and the ozone layer needed) (editorial)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 22, 1987
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A LETHAL FILIBUSTER
It's 13 years since two American scientists stunnedthe world. We have, they reported, manufactured a planetary time bomb by releasing chemicals into the atmosphere that destroy ozone, our cosmic umbrella from the sun's ultraviolet radiation.
Unlucky 13. In all the years since Prof. F. SherwoodRowland and Dr. Mario J. Molina coolly set out the evidence in Nature of June, 1974, virtually nothing has been done anywhere to stop the emission of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's), whose chlorine can stay in the atmosphere for 100 years, eating at the ozone layer. It is a classic story of the abuse of scinece, of selfish vested interests ...