The fact that HFCs are extraordinarily potent greenhouse gases has been known for a very long time so Lovelock’s suggestion that they’re “less harmful to the planetary environment” was only correct if you take a very narrow interpretation of what is harmful to the environment.
I’d be more interested to hear what he’s got to say more generally about climate change in this book because a lot of what he’s been saying recently is, quite frankly, pretty extreme and counterproductive.
