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Oops! Montreal Protocol Solutions May Be Causing Global Warming

Old refrigerators line sidewalk in Havana, Cuba - to be replaced by new ones from China. Could these guys be partly responsible for our climate change problem? Image via: Marco Traverso on Flickr. com The Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987, had the very... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Tue, Sep 22 2009

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