Nanotechnology Could Save The Ozone Layer

Liz writes "Whilst experimenting with nanospheres and perfluorodecalin, a liquid used in the production of synthetic blood, researchers at Germany's University of Ulm have stumbled across a phenomenon that could ultimately help remove ozone-harming chemicals from the atmosphere. See this article for more details."

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Re:The second step?

[Rxke]

The ozone layer has little to do with global warming, it blocks U.V., not infrared, the greenhouse effect is caused by the exhaust of CO2, that blocks reflected heat from the surface, while letting solar heat pass through (roughly speaking) of course, as you stated, all good eco news can be an alibi for governments to keep spewing CO2, logic being not always the main drive in governmental behaviour (and i am being VERY polite here...)

Re:The second step?

[cp99]

John Daly, is a joke.

He cherry picks his data to support his conclusions. If he was so certain of his results, he should submit them for peer review, but like virtually all psudoscientists, scientific peer review is a hurdle too high.

For example, his dismissal of the modelling is simply a head in sand approach. Pretty sad in my opinion. If he has specific criticisms with their analysis he should make them (I suspect that Daly has very little expert knowledge, and therefore doesn't know where to start).

He also ignores the major source of old data; Thomas Lempriere collection of tidal data for the years 1841 and 1842. These mesurements used the mark as a base point. That Daly relies on a single data point taken in 1888 (here's a hint, a single tidal data point is pretty much useless), while ignoring 2 years worth of data collection, is a pretty good indication that Daly is cherry picking the results that he wants.

Daly also uses his own single data point (which he obtained by rowing out there one day), vs. 2 years of data collected from modern tidal gauges.

A similar situation occurs when Daly and the scientists team try to estimate the rate at which the land has been rising or sinking. One group looks at some pictures of the Island, and says that because these look like modern photographs, the land can't have changed that much, the other launchs a major study of Tasmania's geology, using ancient shell beds. I'll leave it upto you to guess whether it was Daly or the scientists who did a real study on the rise and fall of Tasmania.