It was only in the last five years and with the munificent backing of the junk-bond impressario Michael Milken & his firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, that Farley was launched into that stratospheric layer of American corporate life in which he has visualized himself.
He told BBC News that a stratospheric layer of SO2 could cool the planet and would be an effective and none-too-expensive way of tackling climate change.
He achieves at the most stratospheric level.
Mr. McCollum has it at a stratospheric level.
The Montreal Protocol was established in 1987 to facilitate a global approach to combat depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer.
Earth's stratospheric ozone layer blocks all wavelengths shorter than 300 nm from reaching ground-based telescopes.
Such temperatures "would eliminate grain production in almost all agricultural regions in the world", "diminish the stratospheric ozone layer", and "make much of the planet uninhabitable by humans".
The protocol has done a remarkable job in protecting the fragile stratospheric ozone layer from manmade chemicals and thereby preventing harmful solar radiation from reaching planet Earth.
This stratospheric haze layer diminished during the next three years and apparently caused an average cooling of 0.4 °C (0.7 °F) of the Earth's climate during 1992 93.
In the early 1970s, scientists discovered the first human threat to the Earth's atmosphere — the threat from chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, to the stratospheric ozone layer.
