Monday, February 05, 2007
Global Warming - and "friendly" chemicals
So, is the fix making things worse?
And should we wonder about our car's catalytic convertors?...
And should we wonder about our car's catalytic convertors?...
The Associated Press's John Heilprin reports the following:
"In fact, the volume of greenhouse gases created as a result of the Montreal agreement's phaseout of CFCs is two times to three times the amount of global-warming carbon dioxide the Kyoto agreement is supposed to eliminate.
This unintended consequence now haunts the nations that signed both U.N. treaties.
Switzerland first tried in 1990 to sound an alarm that the solution for plugging the ozone hole might contribute to another environmental problem. The reaction?
'Nothing, or almost,' said Blaise Horisberger, the Swiss representative to U.N.-backed Montreal treaty. 'We have been permanently raising this issue. It has been really difficult.'"
