I've not heard the ozone hole mentioned recently, till the post above, but I did read, about a year ago, that it has never been possible to establish a hole in the ozone layer as there isn't an ozone layer as such at all. It was a scientific paper basically reporting that the actual science had been thoroughly misreported as usual.
I'm not saying I believed it...how can I know? But it is yet another nail in the coffin of faith in what we are fed as scientific research. How can we tell?
For instance, and please don't misunderstand me, I'm not one of the sinful by modern opinion "deniers". But there's ample evidence that GB was alot warmer in the past and ample evidence that the universe varies our climate to it's own rules. Ample evidence that average world temperatures were never reliably taken until 1976. And so on. Perhaps we need to expand our definition of religion really, with everyone these days claiming they have none whilst believing all sorts of stuff in the name of science.
I have a friend who did his doctorate on how whenever (and the evidence was without exception) the scientific claims from a study were taken back to the scientists who actually did the study, it was never accurate and quite often totally misleading. "We never claimed that" was the most frequent response.
The one I do really not understand is our reliance on computer modelling. Any model at all is never the real thing. The one common thing about predictions is that they are never 100% correct.
Nick
Last edited by nick w; 06/11/21 12:23 PM.
