{"id":9335,"date":"2009-08-10T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=9335"},"modified":"2009-08-11T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:03:14","slug":"chemical-companies-push-dangerous-greenhouse-gases-in-your-fridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/08\/10\/chemical-companies-push-dangerous-greenhouse-gases-in-your-fridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Companies Push Dangerous Greenhouse Gases in Your Fridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-081009\/2009_08_10_davies.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-081009\/2009_08_10_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/assets\/graphics\/full-fridge\" alt=\"greenfreeze\" \/>Officials from various nations are looking to amend the Montreal Protocol to regulate so-called F-gases \u2013 the environmentally toxic gas commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners. In 1986, Chlorofluorocarbons, the pre-cursors to HFCs, were banned because of their serious danger to the Ozone layer. Touted by the major chemical companies as the environmentally friendly substitution to CFC\u2019s, Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) as well as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), collectively known as F-gases, stepped in to fill the void. What was not known widely at the time was that  these new chemicals are greenhouse gases, and up to 20,000 times more potent than Carbon Dioxide. Described as \u201cthe worst Greenhouse gases you\u2019ve never heard of,\u201d these F-gases, account for about 17% of man-made climate change. Produced by such chemical powerhouses as Honeywell and DuPont, 90% of F-gases are being used to cool our refrigerators, homes, cars, and the food in our supermarkets and vending machines. The environmental organization Greenpeace, has developed a much safer alternative to the F-gases, called Greenfreeze, already being used in Asia, Europe, and South America. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Kert Davies, research director with Greenpeace<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\">www.greenpeace.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace&#8217;s website on &#8220;GreenFreeze&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaigns\/global-warming-and-energy\/green-solutions\/greenfreeze\">www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaigns\/global-warming-and-energy\/green-solutions\/greenfreeze<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Officials from various nations are looking to amend the Montreal Protocol to regulate so-called F-gases \u2013 the environmentally toxic gas commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners. In 1986, Chlorofluorocarbons, the pre-cursors to HFCs, were banned because of their serious danger to the Ozone layer. Touted by the major chemical companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}