The earth warming fraud, which has now been changed to 'climate change', because of course the earth is not warming, is costing the earth's inhabitants billions of dollars in increased electricity rates,. Windmills and solar collectors will save us! Of course they are totally inefficient, and can only exist because of huge government subsidies. But after all, we're saving the earth, at a cost of course of hundreds of thousands of lost jobs in the coal mining industry alone. Solar collector industries all seem to go bankrupt, taking handouts and subsidies with them, at another huge cost to us the taxpayers. Coal fired electric plants all have the best scrubbers and bags to catch the fly ash, so no coal powered power plant is inefficient, and it absolutely the lowest cost electricity there is. Forget the climate change fraud, because it is only the latest nonsense provided by the greenies and fake scientists, who never seem to have enough to do, unless they are providing us with another impending explosion or earth shattering occurrence, which can be eliminated or postponed, if we will just listen to them. Don't you remember the great ozone cloud threat to man and beast?
About 30 years ago, a couple of scientists were startled to discover that the huge ozone cloud which hovers above the earth, and has done so for hundreds of million years perhaps, had a hole in it. The hole was not new, As old as the cloud itself I am certain, but their discovery of it was new, and it quickly became the alarm of the decade. "Oh my goodness, the ozone cloud is disintegrating, and earth will be exposed to all of the sun's radioactivity, ultra violet and other destructive rays, which are filtered by the ozone cloud!" "We've got to do something to save the earth!" "We've got to restore the ozone protection from all those rays, or we'll all be cooked!" Talk about fraudulent science and alarmism! As now, with the carbon dioxide chicanery, there were 'protocols' established, so that the entire earth would become alarmed and fear being cooked.. There was the Montreal protocol in 1987 and a couple others. All the big wigs sat down at tables and decided that we, the consumer, were going to suffer billions of dollars in expenses, because of their wholesale deception.
The scientists quickly figured out what would "save the earth." "We've got to get rid of all those chlorofluorcarbons, or CFC's." CFC's became the big headline, and big government quickly latched onto the latest scare, naturally by passing absurd laws, which cost the consumer billions. These 'smart' scientists quickly informed the media and lawmakers that CFC's were the problem. CFC's, or their common name Freon, was the most common of harmless gasses that were in the most common use everywhere. Freon was used in every refrigerator, air conditioner, ice maker, or anything which needed to be cold. Even in aerosol cans which sprayed paint and insecticide. Freon had been around for half century, and replaced the old, inefficient, refrigerant then in universal use, which was brine. Freon made refrigeration efficient, cheap, and compact. Freon made air conditioning possible and even window air conditioners. Freon made commercial refrigeration systems take a third the space, and use a third of the power. Freon was one of E.I. DuPont's greatest, "Better living through chemistry," as their ads used to read. Now, the brains in white coats and prestigious positions in academia, decided that Freon must go, because Freon destroys Ozone, or so they said anyway. Not only that, but they miraculously discovered a new gas which would replace the common F-12 and F-22 in use billions of places on earth. They called it "135." Anyone working with refrigeration, from now on, by conveniently passed federal laws, had to be licensed, and none of this gas could be allowed to escape into the atmosphere. There had to be complicated hoods or other means of keeping this horrible, ozone destroying substance, out of thin air.
I had a chain of ice cream parlours in Philly when this nonsense came about, and did all my own refrigeration work. That ended it. I wasn't about to be 'licensed' to work on my own equipment, and couldn't buy Freon or 135 without a license. Probably billions of refrigerators, auto air conditioners, window air conditioners, and huge commercial refrigeration and air conditioning units, became illegal. Manufacturers of air conditioning, refrigerators, and auto air conditioners had to change their equipment to support the new gas, and it was not nearly as efficient as was Freon. When an old piece of equipment broke down, in order to fix it, it had to be outfitted to use 135. The cost around the world was astronomical, and still is, because lots of Freon equipment is still in use, and when it breaks down or needs servicing, the cost is huge. I have a 1989 Mercedes 560 SEL which still has "F-12" in its air conditioning, and it works well. If it ever ceased to work, the conversion will cost hundreds. And for what?
Other than costing hundreds of billions of dollars world wide, which costs have of course been passed on to consumers, no one ever hears about the hole in the ozone cloud any more. I guess the hole has been stitched up and we're all saved? Oh thanks you smart scientists and non-thinking Congress! Why, if it weren't for you, we'd probably all be cooked by those nasty Sun's rays, which are filtered out by the ozone cloud! We're ever so much indebted to you!