Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

It's not a scam. R-12 is a very distructive CFC and the rest of the
world signed on to the agreement not to sell/use it any more. Clearly
they're in violation of the agreement. The fact that the US is doing
something about the environment that's correct and proactive is
relatively rare. The cheapest solution isn't always the best
solution.



But, Geoff, the "agreement", itself is a scam, based on false science. The
excuse to cut us off from R-12 was that it was destroying the ozone layer,
which is simply false. The SUN and cosmic rays are destroying the ozone
layer, as they have done for millions and millions of years.

All this nonsense of human gasses destroying the Earth assumes the Earth is
in some kind of sealed bubble, which it is not. For its entire history,
the Earth has been destroyed several times over by awful gasses that came
from without and within, long, long before man evolved (or for 6000 years
if you are a devout Christian). Where did it all go? The ecosystem is NOT
an enclosed bubble and is replenished by massive tons of solar ejecta every
day, the solar wind, as it has all this time, man or no man, propaganda or
no propaganda. Hell, we'd have choked to death from the Industrial
Revolution a hundred years ago if we'd been in a bubble....just from
English factory smoke stacks.

Man gives himself way too much credit for his power over nature. Man can't
seem to grasp how small and insignificant he really is, even with his
machines.