Posted on 10/10/2016 12:49:13 PM PDT by PROCON
Eliminating refrigerants known as HFCs could prevent a leap in global warming
After being directed for almost 30 years at substances that destroy ozone, the Montreal Protocol will for the first time target a group of greenhouse gases. Beginning today in Kigali, Rwanda, member states of the United Nations are finalizing the terms of what could be the largest commitment to reducing global warming since the Paris Agreement on climate last December.
Delegates are likely to take till the meeting’s final day on Oct. 14 to hammer out the knotty details of an amendment to the protocol. Ideally, the amendment will set the terms for a rapid phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the most common of which is the refrigerant HFC-134a, which has 1,430 times more warming potential than carbon dioxide (CO2) over 100 yearsThe amendment would stop the manufacture of HFCs and then reduce their use over time.
“An ambitious amendment is the quickest and least expensive way to reduce the effects of climate change,” says Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, who has been a mainstay at ozone negotiations since almost the beginning of the 1987 treaty. He says a phasedown could prevent the equivalent of 100 to 200 billion tons of CO2 being released into the atmosphere by 2050. That prevention could avert half a degree Celsius of warming by the end of the century. Considering that the Paris Agreement’s goal is to keep global average temperature rise below 2 degree Celsius, an HFC ban offers a significant opportunity.
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OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Refrigeration is arguably one of the pillars of modern life. Food and medicine are completely dependent on it. Global warming alarmists are just repackaged Malthusian fanatics whose primary goal is reducing world population. Ever notice they, like their father Himmler, have no problem with ovens?
Click The Pic For The Link To Article
Ice Making Machine Patented by John Gorrie May 6, 1851
It looks like they want to place ovens under their regulatory control as well.
2016-09-02 Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Conventional Cooking Products; Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNOPR).
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EERE-2014-BT-STD-0005-0054
ROFL
And none of the climate freaks saw this coming? Yeah, right.
>It seems I recall John Efin Kerry also wanting to eliminate our use of air conditioning or make it unbelievably expensive to use it.
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Start w/ Congress and EVERY govt building, station, outhouse and doghouse (ESPECIALLY each/every elected govt persons house(s)\car(s)\etc.)....THEN we’ll pencil in the ‘talk’.
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That would be my reaction.
>>>Ammonia works well...................<<<
Just what I was thinking...powered by an open flame: time to break out the vintage Servel?
I have one of those stored away in the basement, to go along with the stored, vintage gas powered Servel (which needs maintenance & repair). :-(
Hippies ruined the only building suitable for block ice storage, by gutting it to salvage lumber for other projects: it had 18” double wall construction.
As long as Corps of Engineers didn’t interfere, there’s a reservoir close by where ice could “easily” be harvested.
Even as you describe it’s condition, it’s worth GOOD mony. Call an antique dealer to see how much.
They could use a stainless steel heat exchanger off the exhaust for the energy, or a second alternator for an electrical heating element.................
Not a problem. We’ll just all go back to ammonia. Suck on that, stupid hypocritical collectivist greenie weenies!
That’s EXACTLY what I first thought.
Wasn’t it about 17 years ago the last refrigerant was banned???
Not sure, but it seems that there have been several iterations of refrigerants since the original ban back in the ‘80s.
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