History and Climate Change!

In the last episode we left our hero's, wait wrong channel... In yesterday's blog I brought the Carter administration's assault on global cooling to your attention. They say if you don't know history, your destined to repeat it. Some of you aren't old enough to remember this, (or don't choose to admit it), or maybe we've just plain forgotten it, I thought I'd remind you of the similarities. It's eerie! The climate change approach hasn't changed a lick, they've just altered the players.

We left our hero, President Carter giving a State of The Union farewell address donning a very bulky sweater sitting in front of a crackling fireplace broadcasting into our homes. He was commenting on the nation's concerns, and the main one was global cooling. It seems 30 some years ago we were all going to freeze to death. The culprit? Dichlorodifluoromethane, or as we know it, freon, and any fluorocarbon used as a propellant for aerosols. Those gasses were punching a hole in the ozone layer, cooling the earth. The polar ice caps were increasing and we were all going to freeze to death.

The result was banning freon and any propellants used in aerosols. They demonized those gasses as impending doom, certain destruction to planet earth, (Sound familiar?). New propellants and agents were invented to operate our hair spray and cool our cars. The funny thing is years later they found freon wasn't harmful and that hole in the ozone has disappeared, if it was ever there to begin with.

Now if you swap CO2 for freon, and global cooling for global warming, you have Al Gore and his climate enthusiasts. A quick side bar here...They are far from original, the same scare was tried in 1922 with a report the ice caps were also melting. Some decided they weren't as big in 1922 as they were in the late 1800's. Low and behold they returned all by themselves and we still kept on breathing. Here's the scoop, they didn't have the technology then to measure it, and they still don't today. Here's some more science for you.....

CO2 represents 30 parts per million in the atmosphere, thirty, three zero! Now if you turn on every coal burning facility, ran every factory, revved up every car, and used every CO2 producing thing known to mankind it would account for 3% of that 30 parts per million. About the same percentage as winning the lotto 100 times in a row. Let me put that in perspective. It's akin to peeing in the Mississippi river in Ohio and trying to measure the increased water height in the Gulf of Mexico. Basically regulating man made CO2 emissions will have an affect, but it's way closer to no affect than it is to solving the problem, if one does exist.

So, thinkers would ask...What's the motivation here? Why does a politician venture off into environmental concerns? Sadly, two things drive some people's agenda, power and money. Al Gore has invested heavily in the green technology industry. Isn't it odd he's the poster child behind driving this forward? There is also an incredible fortune to be made trading carbon credits, a whole new commodity market. This generates a new tax base from regulation that has powered the government's interest in this man made crisis. (The man made part is what the imagination has run away with). In a word,greed!

God Bless
Capt. Bill

Dichlorodifluoromethane (R-12), usually sold under the brand name Freon-12, is a chlorofluorocarbon halomethane (CFC), used as a refrigerant and aerosol spray propellant. Complying with the Montreal Protocol, its manufacture was banned in the United States along with many other countries due to concerns about damage to the ozone layer.[

R-12 was primarily used in automobiles produced prior to 1994. For older vehicles, retrofits to R-134a (1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane) are generally recommended. Retrofits usually include a complete flushing of the air conditioning system to remove the oil. The oils used for R12 and R-134a are not generally compatible, although some oils designed for conversion to R-134a are advertised as compatible with residual R-12. Additionally a new compressor, expansion valve, and dryer may be needed. In some cases, all new rubber hoses are needed. It is worth noting that after changing the valves, hoses, and compressor, the only original components of the air conditioner remaining are the evaporator and condenser, neither of which have moving or delicate pieces. Replacement components are usually aftermarket products which are certified as R-134a compatible.