Following the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer1, the use of methyl bromide (CH3Br) as a fumigant was largely phased out by 2005, with some exemptions for critical and quarantine/pre-shipment (QPS) uses. As a result, the atmospheric abundance of CH3Br has declined...
“I will confess to contempt,” Aaronson rails, “for anything that I regard as pompous obscurantism — for self-referential systems of jargon whose main purposes are to bar outsiders, to mask a lack of actual understanding, and to confer power to certain favored groups.” “And I regard th...