This is a good news/bad news story at the BBC.
The article says that the 1987 Montreal Protocol to reduce the use of CFC’s that were damaging the ozone layer has been successful, and that the largest hole over the Antarctic could ‘heal itself’ in the next 60 years.
Well, that is good news. I wasn’t a big fan of getting crispy fried by the UV rays of the sun.
BUT… then there is this statement later in the article:
"However, the chemicals brought in to replace CFCs are themselves not benign, and are thought to contribute heavily to global warming."
So once more we have another big ‘whoopsie’ brought to us by the greenahadeen.
I don’t think it is on the scale as their mass genocide of Africans that died of malaria when they were denied the use of DDT by the greens, but it is an inconvenient truth nonetheless, don’t you think? Even though some of the despicable greens have rolled over and admitted their DDT campaign was wrong, some morons are still not getting it. How many more people have to die before ‘Captain Paul Watson’ will admit he is wrong on his sordid little web page?
My point is a simple one: how often do the greenahadeen have to be wrong before we stop listening to them? They use junk science to frighten the world and then 20 years later we find that their ‘cure’ caused either more damage or deaths than the original problem.
For an amusing take on the misguided greens, watch Penn and Teller.
One of the few advantages of age is not having to rely on written history.
Everybody “knows” about the “gas-guzzlers of the ’60s”. This comes from constant repetition of this “fact” by various sources. The only problem is that it is not true.
It was the emissions controlled vehicles of the ’70s that were the gas-guzzlers, by about twice.
Imagine millions of vehicles with doubled fuel consumption and all that extra fuel going to produce waste heat.
Did environmentalists cause “global warming”? Well, Duh!