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EPA Chief Gina McCarthy is coming for your air conditioners
Hotair ^ | 11/05/2015 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 11/05/2015 10:05:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind

You’re not supposed to burn any coal or oil. You should probably avoid natural gas too, since it’s composed of hydrocarbons. Don’t drive your car unless it’s one of those battery powered ones that hasn’t caught fire yet. Get rid of those incandescent light bulbs all over your house. Clean all the steak and ground beef out of your fridge because cows are too flatulent. Have you checked all of these off your list? Good. Then you are finally doing your part and helping to end global warming.

Oh, we forgot one more thing… we’re going to need to confiscate your air conditioning. (Daily Caller)

EPA Chief Gina McCarthy wants the world to stop using hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in air conditioners and other consumers products as part of President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming.

McCarthy is so determined to make this happen, she’s taking the lead role at an ongoing United Nations summit to expand the current global treaty covering ozone-depleting substances. The EPA chief hopes that her agency’s recent HFC regulations will convince other countries to join the U.S. in limiting the chemicals…

“Solutions are here, and it’s time to amend the Montreal Protocol to reflect that,” McCarthy wrote, adding that phasing out HFCs would avert 0.5 degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of the century.

Maybe it’s just me, but the same moment you’re telling everyone how much warmer it’s getting might not be the best time to take away their air conditioner. But leaving that aside for the moment, I’m not sure why McCarthy is invoking the Montreal Protocol here since it was put in place to protect the ozone layer. Hydrofluorocarbons don’t impact the ozone layer to my knowledge. There have been plans in the works for a while to replace these substances in air conditioning but you’re looking at moving to ammonia or dimethyl ether or one of a few other options. That’s not only an expensive switch, but the cooling efficiency goes down.

How do we deal with the issue of the moving targets being presented by the environmental warriors? I thought carbon dioxide was the big concern, even though the people going after power plants are looking at small ball goals when you consider that most of it is coming out of automobile exhausts. (Sadly for them, nobody supports you when you say you want to take away their cars.) And now it’s the coolant in our air conditioners. What’s next?

I’ve given up on trying to guess.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airconditioner; epa; epaoutofcontrol; ginamccarthy; hfcs; hydrofluorocarbons
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1 posted on 11/05/2015 10:05:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Don’t drive your car unless it’s one of those battery powered ones that hasn’t caught fire yet.

They have Spontaneous Combustion Engines..........................

2 posted on 11/05/2015 10:07:34 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gina can go to Hell. I guarantee there are no air conditioners there.


3 posted on 11/05/2015 10:09:40 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve already stock-piled some R-134a refrigerant.


4 posted on 11/05/2015 10:10:55 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: TexasRepublic

I have lived without AC and got by but having had it the last 40 of my 50 yrs. sorry Gina, if you want to live like a damned cave women have at it, if you want me to we are going to have issues and come to blows.


5 posted on 11/05/2015 10:11:44 AM PST by sarge83
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll sacrifice mine and drop it on her from 20 feet....


6 posted on 11/05/2015 10:15:23 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: G Larry

ACME brand would be fitting.


7 posted on 11/05/2015 10:17:33 AM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why hasn't Gina McCarthy been impeached for what she did to the Animas River?

8 posted on 11/05/2015 10:18:07 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: G Larry

Sure lets be like Europe where tens of thousands die from lack of AC or her. Don’t forget the 100+ year mortgages and 300% mark up on all thing bought and sold.


9 posted on 11/05/2015 10:18:35 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Clean all the steak and ground beef out of your fridge because cows are too flatulent.

I see this a lot. Are they planning on freeing all of the cattle across the country to just graze and roam free across the country like a wild animal?

10 posted on 11/05/2015 10:18:48 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: G Larry

She just lost Arizona


11 posted on 11/05/2015 10:18:54 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: blam

I’ve already stock-piled some R-134a refrigerant.

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What would I do with my stockpile of R-12 (dichlorodifluoromethane)?


12 posted on 11/05/2015 10:20:38 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: TexasRepublic
EthanolGas
13 posted on 11/05/2015 10:20:57 AM PST by smartyaz
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To: SeekAndFind

Florida is uninhabitable with A.C.


14 posted on 11/05/2015 10:21:09 AM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: SeekAndFind
.... The Global Warming activists are now going into frenzy mode trying to get as many "Green Laws" and "EPA" rulings passed before the coming Global Cooling takes its stronghold.

.... They need to get this stuff rammed through as quickly as possible so that they can credit their activism for turning Global Warming around and thus ...... saving the world.

15 posted on 11/05/2015 10:21:28 AM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: SeekAndFind

So why isn’t she going after our refrigerators too? They all use the same CFC’s in their refrigeration systems. There aren’t going to be enough prisons to house all these people when and if we get on with the business of prosecuting all of them.


16 posted on 11/05/2015 10:24:04 AM PST by vette6387
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To: TexasRepublic

Good post.


17 posted on 11/05/2015 10:24:12 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: SeekAndFind

She will have to pry it from my freon-covered hands.


18 posted on 11/05/2015 10:24:36 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: SeekAndFind
but you are looking at moving to ammonia

A complete disaster. This will release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere when the ammonia decomposes into cyanide radicals and other nasty things that will poison children reinstate slavery and deny equality to LGBTQs. We cannot allow this!

(Of course it is patent nonsense, but is it any more so than the other AGW nonsense the EPA is slinging around?)

19 posted on 11/05/2015 10:25:32 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: ilovesarah2012

Live freon or die?


20 posted on 11/05/2015 10:26:33 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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