Re:2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth
by ckinnan on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:20PM
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Any evidence for your claim? That's not my recollection of the issue. The Reagan Administration implemented the Montreal Protocol to address ozone depletion. It was immediately ratified by the U.S. Senate by a unanimous vote. It's probably the most successful global environmental agreement in history.
Re:2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth
by mikeash on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:36PM
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Here's one: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2005/08/10/professor_limb...
And another: http://www.newsweek.com/ozone-hole-our-heads-194308
It precisely matches my recollection, as someone who spent far too long listening to Mr. Limbaugh at the time.
Re:2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth
by mobilefriendly on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:53PM
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I dunno, it is hard to argue there was any meaningful political opposition from the Right when Senator Jesse Helms voted for the bill.
It did, and a large number of people on the Right took attitudes exactly like the Right takes on climate change today.
That faction was somewhat weaker within the Right at the time, and the Right somewhat weaker overall, so the political resistance to the science wasn't as successful in preventing federal policy action as it has been in the US on climate change, but the same overall shape of political dispute occurred.