Fast facts: The Montreal Protocol is a treaty about the ozone layer, but this latest amendment from Kigali represents an evolution to concerns about climate change. The 2015 Paris climate deal, which is a non-binding treaty that didn't require congressional input, is mostly about cutting other greenhouse gases from energy and land use. It's wholly separate from the Montreal Protocol.
Congress will have to ratify this. There is support from those in the industry "which include chemical makers like Honeywell and Chemours." Apparently some in the industry had lobbied for this because they already spent a lot of money trying to become compliant with it.
A separate article with more info and rationale here:
https://www.axios.com/industry-to-trump-keep-obama-climate-policy-2485673850.html
Smokin ‘em out. Its a lot easier to expose them when they wear dayglo ID tags.
It is not the Trump Administration that is pushing the anthropogenic climate change argument, it is the Deep State operatives that have not yet been removed, and might never be complete cleaned out. Bureaucracies have a life of their own, a reality that has been noted by others and elsewhere.
Bad science has been compounded with greed on the part of officials seeking new sources of taxation, not for the purposes of revenue (high tax rates equals decreased total revenue) but for the purposes of assigning winners and losers. Free enterprise is anathema to this kind of clannish thinking.
The regulation of these chemicals has nothing to do with global warming AT ALL, and the subject should not even be mentioned in the article.
Thanks to this type of thinking we have toilets that require multiple flushes per movement, dim lightbulbs full of mercury that require a hazmat team when one breaks, dishwashers and washing machines that don’t clean. Now we can have refrigerators and air conditioners that don’t cool.
Most new appliances I see are using R134A, same as cars.
R12 and R22 are already outlawed so maybe this is about the other 100+ countries? I’m sure China will jump right on it. Right after the smog lifts from their industrial zones and they quit eating dogs, shark fin soup and create a democracy of NK.
Didn’t we take care of HFCs a long time ago.
Freon patents ran out. Replacements force use of inferior chemicals so large corps have monopoly again. Everyone wins, government gets taxes, environmentalists think they accomplish goals, middle class gets screwed.
Classic government meddling. This is costing supermarket chains millions upon millions every year.
My brother works in the commercial refrigeration field. he says its “musical refrigerants”. When they get done upgrading to one, the government makes them change again.
Some have done thousands of dollars worth of damage per store to existing systems.
Manufacturers are also in on the collusion to obtain market share.
They have still not learned that man-made “greenhouse gases” are a fiction.
The policy is essentially that recommended some years ago by Danish mathematician Bjorn Lomborg. He rejected as excessively costly and implausible any crusade to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but seeing evidence of potentially harmful global warming caused by humans, Lomborg urged that human emissions of more potent warming gases be reduced. As Lomborg and others have shown, this can be accomplished using the Montreal Protocol at bearable cost and with little disruption.
Ignore Trump’s words and actions to date and this article has a chance of making sense....
It was all a scam. CFC’s are much heavier than air so it does not float up into the ozone in the first place. Just the normal rent seeking by crony capitalists and RATS/Rinos who are happy to sell laws to the highest bidders.
Judith Garber: Obamite?