Posted On: Thursday - March 7th 2024 7:05PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Science
Two big, errr, storm centers coming your way. I guess a string bikini wouldn't have been appropriate here.
I'm so glad I didn't deserve any of this Instant Klimate Kalamity™ Karma that was comin' down ... in dozens of feet, onto the Sierras and Intermountain West. Even the standared Lyin' Press sites had to admit it.
NBC News and Yahoo Finance, respectively, reported this weekend, Powerful blizzard dumps snow across Sierra Nevada with 145 mph wind gusts in biggest storm of the season and Western US to Be Whipped by Blizzards, Wildfires Through Weekend
Come to think of it, the people of the High Sierras and the Intermountain West aren't so much the types that deserve this pounding either. The general Karma is for those who keep claiming that they have a working mathematical model of the entire World's climate. Oooops! (Happens all the time.)
In the meantime, it probably wasn't so much Karma as basic bad luck involved in the story of a California Man Arrested for Smuggling Greenhouse Gases Into the United States. It wasn't the CO2 in his lungs he'd exhaled after swimming the Rio Grande. It wasn't the water in his Mayorkas-supplied water bottle either.
It was the hydrofluorocarbons in his trunk. Dammit, who knew the Border Patrol was so scientifically knowledgeable?! They let the cocaine and fentanyl get by, cartel members and Moslem terrorists are not even hassled, and you can still tote a couple of kilos in a spare tire for auld lang syne. However, this shit is SERIOUS, man! It's a refrigerant.
“This is the first time the Department of Justice is prosecuting someone for illegally importing greenhouse gases, and it will not be the last,” U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath said in a statement. “We are using every means possible to protect our planet from the harm caused by toxic pollutants, including bringing criminal charges.”It used to be the stuff killing the ozone layer with a hole you could drive a Mack truck through, but now it's a massive greenhouse gas. So, too bad about your old fridge and your Trans Am air conditioning, ebay customers. We're tryin' a stop Global Warming here, so you're just gonna have to sweat it out... and eat rotten avocados... No worries, the fentanyl brings out the flavor...
If convicted on all counts, Hart faces up to 45 years in prison and $750,000 in fines.Hell yeah. Keep that R-134a south of the border. We'll have a big beautiful wall to keep it out, with a big
Comments:
The Alarmist
Friday - March 8th 2024 8:19AM MST
PS
Storm Centers ... so that's what we're calling them now?
I would ordinarily associate troughs with storms, not high pressure peaks.
Good things come in pairs sometimes.
Storm Centers ... so that's what we're calling them now?
I would ordinarily associate troughs with storms, not high pressure peaks.
Good things come in pairs sometimes.
Moderator
Friday - March 8th 2024 6:35AM MST
PS: From your link: "In addition to greenhouse gases, the indictment alleges that Hart imported HCFC-22, an ozone-depleting substance regulated under the Clean Air Act.
The EPA has pledged to enforce a rule imposing a 40% reduction in HFCs as part of a global phaseout designed to slow climate change. The rule follows a 2020 law that prohibits the importation of HFCs without allowances issued by the EPA."
The Climate Calamity™ BS aside, even before that, the California way was to keep pushing for those ever-diminishing returns. Getting rid of almost all of the NOx's and particulates was a great thing for the LA basin especially. However, the petty tyrants in Sacramento are too lazy to do any thinking, so they just keep pushing on the small stuff, making life harder.
Long ago, I was ready to write a post on the CARB, California Air Resources Board, whose dictates affect the whole country. I got the last 12 gallons (2 cans, each with a bonus gallon) of non-CARB approved Olympic water stain 10 years back, Adam. I just broke into the first can to seal a wall. Then there were the ridiculous gas can spouts. I've spilled more gas on the ground and in the water due to them than any of the simple ones, which I also collected! There are more examples, but I lost some of them in my head for that post.
The EPA has pledged to enforce a rule imposing a 40% reduction in HFCs as part of a global phaseout designed to slow climate change. The rule follows a 2020 law that prohibits the importation of HFCs without allowances issued by the EPA."
The Climate Calamity™ BS aside, even before that, the California way was to keep pushing for those ever-diminishing returns. Getting rid of almost all of the NOx's and particulates was a great thing for the LA basin especially. However, the petty tyrants in Sacramento are too lazy to do any thinking, so they just keep pushing on the small stuff, making life harder.
Long ago, I was ready to write a post on the CARB, California Air Resources Board, whose dictates affect the whole country. I got the last 12 gallons (2 cans, each with a bonus gallon) of non-CARB approved Olympic water stain 10 years back, Adam. I just broke into the first can to seal a wall. Then there were the ridiculous gas can spouts. I've spilled more gas on the ground and in the water due to them than any of the simple ones, which I also collected! There are more examples, but I lost some of them in my head for that post.
Moderator
Friday - March 8th 2024 6:29AM MST
PS: "It's pretty cool that the criminals masquerading as "government" have nothing better to do than to harass people fixing air conditioning."
Everything else is going swimmingly, in Instapundit parlance, so this must be the most important crime to fight right now, Adam.
It's not like people are building R134a systems, as far as I know. People just want to keep the old stuff running. No matter what you think of the science of the atmosphere and these gases, amounts going into the atmosphere must be a couple of orders of magnitude lower than they were when this was the thing, having replaced R-12.
I wonder what it takes to get a Section 609 cert.
Everything else is going swimmingly, in Instapundit parlance, so this must be the most important crime to fight right now, Adam.
It's not like people are building R134a systems, as far as I know. People just want to keep the old stuff running. No matter what you think of the science of the atmosphere and these gases, amounts going into the atmosphere must be a couple of orders of magnitude lower than they were when this was the thing, having replaced R-12.
I wonder what it takes to get a Section 609 cert.
Adam Smith
Thursday - March 7th 2024 11:40PM MST
PS: Good evening, Mr. Moderator,
Up to 45 years in prison and $750,000 in fines?
Uncle Samantha must really be afraid of refrigerants...
https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2018/08/20/repair-u-get-anyone-touching-a-c-certified-to-avoid-big-epa-fines/
“Any person who repairs or services a motor vehicle air conditioning (MVAC) system for consideration must be properly trained and certified under section 609 of the Clean Air Act by an EPA-approved program,” the EPA’s website states. “All technicians servicing MVAC-like appliances must be certified.”
The fine is $37,500 per technician per day for any staff caught working on the air conditioning without the Section 609 certification.
It's pretty cool that the criminals masquerading as "government" have nothing better to do than to harass people fixing air conditioning.
More about the heroic arrest of Michael Hart...
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-the-epa-hails-the-arrest-of-california-man-accused-of-smuggling-illicit-air-coolants-into-the-us/
Maybe someone can give assistant EPA administrator David Uhlmann a bravery medal or something.(?)
Clown World is Awesome! ☮️
Up to 45 years in prison and $750,000 in fines?
Uncle Samantha must really be afraid of refrigerants...
https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2018/08/20/repair-u-get-anyone-touching-a-c-certified-to-avoid-big-epa-fines/
“Any person who repairs or services a motor vehicle air conditioning (MVAC) system for consideration must be properly trained and certified under section 609 of the Clean Air Act by an EPA-approved program,” the EPA’s website states. “All technicians servicing MVAC-like appliances must be certified.”
The fine is $37,500 per technician per day for any staff caught working on the air conditioning without the Section 609 certification.
It's pretty cool that the criminals masquerading as "government" have nothing better to do than to harass people fixing air conditioning.
More about the heroic arrest of Michael Hart...
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-the-epa-hails-the-arrest-of-california-man-accused-of-smuggling-illicit-air-coolants-into-the-us/
Maybe someone can give assistant EPA administrator David Uhlmann a bravery medal or something.(?)
Clown World is Awesome! ☮️
Firearm restrictions, 15 minute cities, C-21 cities, forcing people into an all electric future, digital currency and now digital verification requirements to use the internet (Nikki Haley supports that last one). They want us totally dependent on electricity so they can control how & when we use it and how much it costs. And should we not comply with a mandate, they'll turn off our power (that's WHY they put smart meters in place 10 years ago). It's all about control.