{"id":129902,"date":"2024-06-12T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129902"},"modified":"2024-06-12T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T23:03:58","slug":"washington-post-the-world-agreed-to-ban-this-dangerous-pollutant-and-its-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129902","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) The world agreed to ban this dangerous pollutant \u2014 and it\u2019s working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the first time, researchers have detected a significant dip in atmospheric levels of hydrochlorofluorocarbons \u2014 harmful gases that deplete the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/09\/22\/ozone-layer-health-air-pollution\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">ozone layer<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2024\/06\/05\/global-temperatures-1-5-celsius-record-year\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">warm the planet.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 30 years after nations first agreed to phase out these chemicals, which were widely used for air conditioning and refrigeration, scientists say global concentrations peaked in 2021. Since then, the ozone-depleting potential of HCFCs in the atmosphere has fallen by about three-quarters of a percentage point, according to findings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-024-02038-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0in the journal Nature Climate Change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though small, that decline comes sooner than expected, scientists say \u2014 and it represents a significant milestone for the international effort to preserve the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-solutions\/2023\/01\/09\/ozone-layer-recovery-study-2023\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\">layer of Earth\u2019s stratosphere<\/a>&nbsp;that blocks dangerous ultraviolet sunlight.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-solutions\/2024\/06\/11\/hcfc-gas-reduction-ozone-global-warming\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The world agreed to ban this dangerous pollutant \u2014 and it\u2019s working &#8211; The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qfa9bSUAii\">https:\/\/t.co\/Qfa9bSUAii<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Steve Berkowitz (@steveberkowitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steveberkowitz\/status\/1800872269704786317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have detected a significant dip in atmospheric levels of hydrochlorofluorocarbons \u2014 harmful gases that deplete the&nbsp;ozone layer&nbsp;and&nbsp;warm the planet. Almost 30 years after nations first agreed to phase out these chemicals, which were widely used<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129902\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[683,140,168,119,151,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129907,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129902\/revisions\/129907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}