Back in the early 1990s, in compliance with the Montreal Protocol, the
U.S. and most of the rest of the world banned the use of
chloroflourocarbons (CFCs), used in Freon, as a coolant for all kinds
of air conditioning and refrigeration. Now we find that the mandated
substitute for CFCs is an imprtant greenhouse gas. Gee, what a
surprise, a government policy meant to do good ends up having negative
unintended consequences. Here’s the news story, but this is the bottom line:
“the volume of greenhouse gases created as a result of the
Montreal agreement’s phase-out of CFCs is two times to three times the
amount of global-warming carbon dioxide the Kyoto agreement is supposed
to eliminate.?
