CO2 and global effort were being talked about and the IPCC was being created out of UNEP right back when we were starting to take action on CFCs. Reagan and Th

CO2 and global effort were being talked about and the IPCC was being created out of UNEP right back when we were starting to take action on CFCs. Reagan and Thatcher together pushed for global action on CFCs, and were pretty central to the Montreal Treaty getting signed. Only Thatcher pushed for global action on CO2 in the late 80s. Her speech to the UN from 89 is surprising, if naively optimistic about business' role in things, but she seemed very well informed about a then little known or understood science, and even talked of stopping forest and species loss. Approach the mid 90s and Thatcher was caught up in her dogmatic, failing government, while science, CO2 and plenty of other things were forgotten. Reagan wasn't at all keen, even of the then new IPCC. Maybe had he been interested too... https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/science/the-montreal-protocol-a-little-treaty-that-could.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/science/the-montreal-prot...