I don't know how many of you recall this buffoon,
Sherwood Rowland, single-handedly ruined the aerosol industry (of which I was a major shareholder) and caused countless people to worry about their refrigerators but he was the man who was more concerned than any other in the whole of Christendom about sunburned penguins and least concerned about applying his brains to Salvation.
Anyway, you will now realize that nothing has happened and that ludicrous stories about
"Holes in Ozone" (whatever Ozone is, because I've not met anyone who has the slightest idea, let alone seen one!
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The death has been announced of Sherwood Rowland - the US chemistry professor who first suspected that the Earth's protective ozone layer was being depleted by man-made chemicals.
Prof Rowland published a paper on the dangers of the then-popular chlorofluorocarbons - CFCs - in 1974. His ideas were derided at the time by other scientists and especially the chemical industry. Edit EB: and me[/b]
But 20 years later, Sherwood Rowland won a Nobel Prize for his work. Edit EB: This is the same Nobel Prize that Yassher Arafat won.
The University of California at Irvine (UCI) researcher - who was known as Sherry - Edit EB: a drinking habit no doubt[/b] shared the award with Mario Molina of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Paul Crutzen of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. Edit EB: foreigners[/b]
"We have lost our finest friend and mentor," said UCI physical sciences dean Kenneth Janda. Edit EB: 'finest friend and mentor' is code for, "A meal ticket"
"He saved the world from a major catastrophe; never wavering in his commitment to science, truth and humanity, and did so with integrity and grace."
Rowland's and colleagues' calculations had led in the late 1970s to some restrictions being placed on CFCs, which were then widely used as refrigerants, propellants in spray cans, solvents, and blowing agents to make foams.
However, it was not until 1985 and the discovery that the chemicals were initiating a severe depletion, or "hole", in the ozone layer over Antarctica that impetus was given to a treaty to ban chlorofluorocarbons - the so-called Montreal Protocol. Edit EB: You might have known the Canadians would be in on this!.
Ozone is a molecule that is composed of three oxygen atoms. It is responsible for filtering out harmful ultraviolet radiation (less than 290 nanometres wavelength) from the Sun.
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Where he is now, he will have no worries about Ozone (sic) – more like Brimstone - and will be wishing he were in Antarctica.
Listening to Scientists is the freeway to Damnation