Since the greenies can’t admit they screwed up royally, that leaves only one solution for them: eliminate anything that requires such chemicals. Refrigeration and air conditioning come immediately to mind, but also scientific research requiring cold temperatures.

Losing the scientific research probably wouldn’t affect the greenies, though. They’ve never paid the least bit of attention to sound science anyway.

I am a high school drop out, and I understood this simply basic fact in 1986, when I was training to be a HVAC/Refrigeration technician.

Wrong. It’s so hysterically funny that’d I’d have snorted a beverage through my nose had I been drinking. This is also the kind of stupidity that will kill us all of we continue to allow these statist morons any hold on the reins of power.

I remember back as an undergrad, we had a prof assign us to look at the lunatic idea of using an A-bomb to blow out a hurricane. Some lunatic had this idea, detonate a bomb in the eye of a hurricane to shut it down. Well, we did a back of the envelope calculation of how much energy is in a disk of atmosphere the size of a hurricane spinning around. We underestimated by assuming it was a single disk at a single angular velocity (not true, there’s a ton more energy in an actual storm than this). What we found was that compared to the hurricanes energy, the bomb was like passing wind in a sandstorm, the only result is that now you’d have radioactive rain.

No reason not to use every mathematical tool and simulation in your bag to try and understand chaotic systems, that’s a great and rewarding thing to do. You will never completely grasp it, but human knowledge is expanded by things like this, but to assume you know enough to try and manipulate things is just arrogance of the most dangerous kind.

Ron Russell:
Exactly right! When you try something w/o knowing what exactly is broken, then for sure there are going to be unintended consequences–just like the one WAPO reports.

Well, duh! Studies in the past have shown earthquake potential to easily be in the 9 – 10 range on the west coast, so I have no idea why they think this is news.

Unless, of course, it’s just to keep the fears of the masses stoked so they won’t pay attention to the disaster in D.C. Or to sell more papers?

But I’ve also seen where the people responsible for the CFC ban admitted that it was not going to do anything to close the ozone hole, it was a proof of principle exercise to see how to push global governance by passing a global law banning CFCs. Just like AGW is not about warming but “social justice.”