Cottage Report

 July long weekend, the cottage of my youth.  Hot, muggy with lots of thunderstorms.  The cold June has the blueberries behind, but for the first time in 20 years, we have some.  The fish might even be back.

The Internet is bad, so no weather stuff.

The path less travelled

 

Today, we note that Toronto owns the only heatwave in the world.

And this is the plot that gave the headline.  The flat line just crossed a little valley, and is cruising into another lump.

It is being held up by the Nino Zone, which is collapsing.  

A better indicator is the Atlantic hurricane zone, which is trying to hide deep underground.  No hurricanes for you.

Ozone hole goes back forever

 

This is an excellent article in the art of making things up.  They found that the ozone hole existed before freon, and then blamed carbon tetrachloride "because it's there".

The physics hypothesis is that we always had it, and it is related to temperature.  During our cold cycles, nothing at all happens in the ozone layer, so no ozone is formed.

This was always my best example of "dogma over the Scientific Method".  nasa needed some drama, found one chlorine atom on a plane survey, and conjured up the whole freon disaster.  The funny thing is that they still had some scientists in the basement who followed the SM.  Those guys did an experiment in their atmospheric chamber, and published that no chemical reactions were possible under the extreme cold and vacuum-like conditions.  Hoo Boy!  They were destroyed, and the papers, which I once read, disappeared from the Universe.

After that, no more sm.