http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/08/30/updates-in-the-great-global-warming-swindle-the-sun-causes-climate-change/ Hate The State Tue, 21 May 2013 11:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/08/30/updates-in-the-great-global-warming-swindle-the-sun-causes-climate-change/#comment-9066 PKP Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:06:00 +0000 http://www.libertariannews.org/?p=9865#comment-9066 Just learned via Jeffrey Tucker at Mises.org (http://mises.org/daily/5592/Suddenly-Its-Back-to-the-Stone-Age) that they are getting ready to ban R134a refrigerant on the pretext of global warming.
First, they got rid of a perfectly good refrigerant R12 falsely claiming that it destroyed the ozone layer, (now they actually say the ozone layer causes GW), resulting in the closure of factories, loss of jobs, billions spent replacing appliances, and switching to R134a, which is several fold more expensive, less efficient and needs bigger, power consuming compressors than R12 and also less tolerant to moisture and impurity. Now that we have made the switch and all our refrigerators, A/Cs and car A/Cs run on R134a, they are banning it to replace it with another more expensive, less effective, even more problematic, less tolerant refrigerant R-1234yf.
Supposedly R134a causes GW. If you go to check the global warming potential of these gases, CO2 is 1, R134a is of about 1400, but they do not list the GWP of water vapor. Why? Because its GWP is in the order of millions compared to CO2 but magically water vapor has no impact on GW.
In the light of the above findings on GW from CERN, NASA, et al., this banning of R134a is outrageous.

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