US helps lower climate warming gases

The Obama administration called hydrofluorocarbons is used a lot in refrigerators and air conditioner. This is very significant to the threat of climate change Monday. A senior State Department official stopped short of buying a formal proposal last week. It was by the two small island nations of Micronesia and Mauritius. It was to alter the ozone treaty known as the Montreal Protocol by cutting HFCs by 90 percent by 2030. The treaty tells the use of HFCs is a class of powerful greenhouse gases. This has something to do with CFCs. CFCs have now been destroyed. HFCs do not harm the ozone layer. They are potent greenhouse gases. They are up to 10,000 times more so than carbon dioxide. Micronesia and Mauritius wanted to include an HFCs phase out in the ozone treaties conversation planned for November. They are calling it a matter of survival. The survival is for their island inhabitants as sea levels rise. The deadline for making such a deal was this week. The idea ran into some resistance in the White House. This was during a year when the administration was considering all its negotiating chips. This was for the successor to the Kyoto climate treaty that will expires in 2012. This is good news.