“[The Montreal Protocol] is one of the few areas where the international community really came together." an interview with Kenneth Jucks

Description

Kenneth Jucks, Program Manager for the Upper Atmosphere Research Program at NASA Headquarters, has gone from launching weather balloons, what he calls a “poor man’s satellite” to take measurements up to 25 miles above the Earth’s surface, to managing five satellites tracking things like carbon and methane emissions.

Parts of the world may be divided when it comes to discourse on climate change and the steps we should take to mitigate it. But thanks in part to the scientific assessments Jucks made on the ozone layer, the world came together in 1987 with the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty for protecting the ozone layer by phasing out the use of substances like hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) responsible for ozone depletion in the atmosphere. (Recorded 10 December 2018)

Participants

• Kenneth Jucks
  
• Josh Learn
  
• AGU Narratives
  

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• AGU Narratives