The Ozone Scam
At the top of a warm dry cycle, you get scams and fraud. The current man-made global warming scam is one of them. But it wasn’t the first.
Remember ozone?
Back in the 1980s, there was a skin cancer scare that was simply based on a theory. The theory was that Freon, a substance used in refrigeration and aerosol cans, could break up the ozone layer in the stratosphere.
Now, this “theory” has never been proven and the science says that it’s unlikely to ever to be proven, but politicians got on board and we banned the substance in the Montreal Protocol agreement in 1987.
Lo and behold, when you look a little deeper, you find that this all happened at the exact time when DuPont was losing its patent on Freon, meaning that anyone would now be able to manufacture and use it. They’d lose their monopoly.
But let’s get back to that science. The stratosphere is a layer around the Earth about 20-50 km above the ground. That’s where you find ozone being created.
Ozone is formed when sunlight (or ultraviolet rays) meet oxygen molecules. The UV rays in sunlight turn oxygen (two oxygen atoms) into ozone (three oxygen atoms).
But ozone is very unstable and when introduced to chlorine, breaks down into single oxygen atoms. These two processes happen over and over and over again way up there in the stratosphere.
Freon contains chlorine. And that’s the about the only connection between Freon and ozone.
Because Freon molecules are over four times heavier than oxygen. So there’s no way they’re ever going to get into the stratosphere. It would be like putting a brick in a swimming pool. The brick isn’t going to float to the top.
There are two zones with reduced ozone at the top of the atmosphere—over the North and South poles. The area over the South pole is the larger of the two.
The idea is that Freon somehow not only floated to the top but found its way to the poles and did its nasty work there.
Now, the real reason there isn’t much ozone around the poles is that they’re the two areas on Earth that get the least sunlight. In winter, they’re dark 24 hours a day for six months. Freon can’t form without sunlight.
And ozone levels haven’t changed since we found out about them.
What’s more, chlorine, which is the real culprit in breaking down ozone exists in huge quantities in the atmosphere from natural sources.
It evaporates from sea water and gets to the stratosphere through thunderstorms, hurricanes, and the like. Volcanoes pump out millions of tons of chlorine. Forest fires add millions more tons to the atmosphere. And here’s the paltry amount that could get added from all the Freon in cans, if we could somehow get Freon to travel 50 kilometers and break down into its parts, which it doesn’t like to do.
So, what’s the real reason it was banned? Well, let’s go back to Dupont and their patent. It was about to end and Freon, which cost about 50 cents per pound to manufacture, would have been available for all their competitors to use.
So, while they supported this crazy science and pushed for a ban on Freon, they got busy and created an alternative series of products that are up to 20 times more expensive. And they have the patent on these new products.
Of course governments get their fair share through taxes. It was as win-win situation!
So, I’ll let you be the judge as to how much truth there is to the Freon ban. In any event, the result of it has cost the public billions of dollars based on science that makes no sense.
This is the kind of fraud I see all over the place, and it’s usually a bi product of a warm dry cycle, leading to a major revolution.
So, it’s not like it won’t happen again …