Schadenfreude!
Cheers!
Junk Science revisted. Lovely....
How about Freon?
It’s always something.
There is probably no refrigerant that will not have some effect on the atmosphere. We’ll probably just have to return to pre-A/C days.
Just further proof to me that it’s all a bunch of hooey!
Everything about socialism is sham and affectation. - Frederic Bastiat, Chapter 23 - Evil, "Economic Harmonies"
Another classic example of over-regulation.
If you study Ozone a bit (start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone ), you’ll see that UV light produces Ozone, and without UV light, it will revert to Oxygen in half an hour. If we destroy Ozone in the atmosphere, more will immediately be created. If we increase the amount, it will destroy itself. There is and always has been nothing we could do to alter the amount of ozone in our atmosphere. There was no reason to come up with a refrigerant replacement in the first place, especially considering the insignificant amount of Cl- ions produced by refrigerant compared to, say, volcanic eruptions.
That said, the ozone has always been weakest at the poles. Why? Less UV radiation (duh). So what has happened recently that would affect the level of Ozone in the atmosphere? A lack of sunspots, and hence, radiation from the sun. Sunspots, along with lack of Ozone as a greenhouse gas, also explains the global cooling that has occurred, noticeably this summer.
What else points to over-regulation on this matter? How about the fact that we want ozone, but fight its production. The EPA fights ozone because it’s a pollutant and greenhouse gas. It appears that we’re at an impasse; do we want ozone to shield us from UV rays, or get rid of it, because it is a greenhouse gas and harmful to our health?
Ozone doesn’t matter, because the Ozone layer is merely the byproduct of the absorption of UV rays by Oxygen in the upper atmosphere. We know this because if it was produced at low altitudes, it would be low-level ozone, or break up into Oxygen on the way higher into the atmosphere.
If anything, we should get rid of Ozone whenever we can because it’s caustic, toxic, and a catalyst for global warming that multiplies the effect of the sun’s energy, and increase CO2 to compensate for the greenhouse effect. The straight line of CO2 is easier to manipulate than the parabolic multiplier Ozone creates for sunlight.
Buncha hooey all around.
You can just never get enough bullshit from this crowd.
The chemicals, called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), were introduced widely in the 1990s to replace ozone-depleting gases used in air conditioners, refrigerators and insulating foam. They worked: The earth's protective shield seems to be recovering. But researchers say what's good for ozone is bad for climate change. In the atmosphere, these replacement chemicals act like "super" greenhouse gases...Hangin's too good for the bastards -- I mean all the scam artists enriching themselves with scientifically groundless claims about the human impact on the climate.