19 February 2014 - Mean Ocean Water

Vienna is the capital of a landlocked country. Also, the ocean is natural and cannot be standardized. But science sneers at such hurdles, giving us Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water, which is not real ocean water but distilled ocean water, meaning it’s different from rainwater only as far as laboratory distillation apparatus is different from the open-air distillation apparatus called “Earth”. So if you think spending a few hundred million on climate denialism will sidetrack science—hah! Science sneers! It only sidetracks politics, the part that counts.