It is amazing how many people still harbor deranged fantasies about the big government conspiracy to deprive us of our God-given R-12. This insane screed was the first hit for me on Google. It doesn't give me hope that we'll solve climate change.
You can thank the Libertarian Mind Virus for much of that.
Much of it is thin cover for promoting precisely that false narrative, and with an exceptionally strong set of corporate backers behind it. I strongly recommend Philip Mirowski's work on the Mont Pelerin Society. Also Robert Proctor on agnotology, and Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway's Merchants of Doubt
You may present the argument you consider as well excused. My point is that in the area of HVAC and environmental engineering departments in the universities at the time, the "ozone hole" argument was in-disputable. So my metaphor is that, the DMV may propose or just stipulate the best driving protocol for humanoid on a motor vehicle. The contrary motion may need more comprehensive and comprehensible materials to be sound.
Much of it is thin cover for promoting precisely that false narrative, and with an exceptionally strong set of corporate backers behind it. I strongly recommend Philip Mirowski's work on the Mont Pelerin Society. Also Robert Proctor on agnotology, and Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway's Merchants of Doubt
http://www.worldcat.org/title/road-from-mont-pelerin-the-mak...
http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=11232
http://www.worldcat.org/title/merchants-of-doubt-how-a-handf...