Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/12/2010 9:11:26 AM PDT by EBH
Canada and Mexico have joined the United States in proposing to expand the scope of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The Montreal Protocol is a treaty that includes 196 countries signed in 1987. The goal of the Montreal Protocol is to help restore the ozone layer by ending the production of ozone-depleting substances and now potentially phasing down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are a significant contributor to climate change.
EPA led the analysis in the proposal, which demonstrates environmental benefits equal to removing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 59 million passenger cars each year through 2020, and 420 million cars each year through 2050. Reducing HFCs would help slow climate change and curb potential public health impacts.
During the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) under the Montreal Protocol and the Clean Air Act, manufacturers of equipment such as car air conditioners and kitchen refrigerators substituted HFCs for CFCs. The new trilateral proposal would phase down HFCs, which are up to 14,000 times more damaging to the Earth’s climate system than carbon dioxide. Even though efforts over the past decade have reduced emissions, global atmospheric concentrations of HFCs continue to increase. Without this proposal, HFC use in developing countries is anticipated to grow substantially, driven both by increased demand for refrigeration and air-conditioning, and because HFCs were developed as alternatives to ozone depleting substances.
EPA evaluates substitute chemicals and technologies for ozone-depleting substances. Additionally, EPA will propose four refrigerants as possible substitutes in U.S. household and commercial refrigerators and freezers. These hydrocarbon-based coolants would replace existing refrigerants that harm the stratospheric ozone layer and the climate system. The proposal lists isobutane, propane, HCR-188C, and HCR-188C1 as potentially acceptable substitutes for the ozone-depleting chemicals CFC-12 and HCFC-22.
More information on the trilateral proposal is available here, and more information on the four replacement chemicals is available here.
There is the payola line! And it was their protocol that made the whole darn thing worse...unintended consequences.
They won’t be happy until we’re all in mud huts and the elites can live a few decades on their stolen wealth.
What will they do when the stolen loot is gone?
they failed with the carbon credit scam so they dredge this bad boy back up....just last week i read where there is no hole in the ozone any longer and all was well...sheesh...
They lost the carbon argument...
Now they are looking to make new chemicals culprits.
Scamsters.....
North American Fool Lemming Association
Exactly.
They’ve got to find a way to keep the climate boogey man alive.
Now they are looking to make new chemicals culprits.
The crisis changes from time to time, but the solution is always the same.
Your welcome.
I hope this grouping of posts this week, illustrates how they are already moving and putting the pawns in place for the Cap N Tax.
“hydrofluorocarbons”
instead, we need to switch back to chlorofluorocarbons. We need to do that before we round up all the greeniacs and drop them onto various desert islands. Or maybe just the middle of the Sahara. That way they’ll see the CFC revival before they are parted from civilization for good.
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