Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?(livescience.com)
livescience.com
Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?
http://www.livescience.com/environment/Whatever-Happened-to-the-Hole-in-the-Ozone-Layer-100505.html
5 comments
What you're describing looks like Google Living Stories. http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/
The code is open-source and there is even an Wordpress plugin.
BTW: I always wanted a website or newspaper that covered stories that made the headlines to investigate it years later, to see how these people are doing now or how events shaped their lives. Would be interesting to read.
The code is open-source and there is even an Wordpress plugin.
BTW: I always wanted a website or newspaper that covered stories that made the headlines to investigate it years later, to see how these people are doing now or how events shaped their lives. Would be interesting to read.
I'd like to take this one step further and actually hold people who make big claims accountable. So part of the proposed website could have members actually contact the scientists (or journalists) every 5 years and find out if they're meeting they're predictions and if not, why not.
That's what Long Now's http://www.longbets.org/ is for :)
I'm pretty sure people just don't know what to do about it. Those tons of aresoles that people released in the past decades are now in the ozone layer, and they act as catalysts for the decomposition reaction from ozone to o2, changing the equilibrium constant while essentially not being affected.
Unless people figure out some way to eat up whats already been released, there really isn't anything about it that merits news, other than the idea that as many people as possible should know.
Unless people figure out some way to eat up whats already been released, there really isn't anything about it that merits news, other than the idea that as many people as possible should know.
>Those tons of aresoles
I initially read that as "those tons of arse-holes." Sort of half a Freudian slip?
I initially read that as "those tons of arse-holes." Sort of half a Freudian slip?
"Closing the ozone hole actually speeds up the melting of the polar ice caps, according to a 2009 study from Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research."
Unintended consequence?
Unintended consequence?
Down here in Argentina we haven't forgotten about it at all. Tourists heading to the far south in the summer are often cautioned to wear lots of sunblock because it's so easy to get sunburned there.
Really? An article I read back when the ozone hole was a big news story pointed out that at high latitudes, the sun angle is so low that sunburn is quite unlikely, ozone or no ozone. What are ultraviolet radiation measurements in populated places in the extreme south of Argentina compared to, say, measurements in tropical Central America?
Well, I don't know about the measurements - I'm just an ignorant programmer, not a climatologist. :)
But AFAIK you can get sunburnt in extreme latitudes, ozone or no ozone in fact.
http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/2006/04/bedroom-view-938-pm_... http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayint...
But AFAIK you can get sunburnt in extreme latitudes, ozone or no ozone in fact.
http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/2006/04/bedroom-view-938-pm_... http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayint...
(My example is always an article I read about a decade ago about mouth bacteria which caused no or minimal cavities but could also overpower the normal bacteria, which if introduced would make it so you virtually never needed to go to the dentist)