Sentences with phrase «about ozone layers»

This reminds me of a few years ago, when I was doing some piece about the ozone layer and the history of the science.

When concern was raised about the ozone layer and the harm being done by CFC's, the world acted relatively quickly.

Everything I could dredge up at the time linked to an odd one - page web site (screen captured in a Yahoo search cache here, its current iteration seemingly just expired, more info here) with the most generic possible uninformative information about the ozone layer and global warming.

Above the point where this Oreskes / Conway presentation / paper referred to Dr Singer's position on second - hand smoke is a mention of ozone layer scientist Dr Sherwood Rowland, referencing Dr Singer's protest about the certainty of Rowland's conclusions about the ozone layer.

Pope John Paul II in 1990, warned in a speech about the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect because of» industrial growth, massive urban concentrations and vastly increased energy needs.»

We don't hear about the ozone layer any more do we?

This is the man who said we needn't worry about the ozone layer hole because his imaginary friend «Gaia» would sort it out; and who now says we're doomed anyway.

Not exact matches

Since 1,700 top scientists issued a dramatic warning 25 years ago about humanity pushing the Earth beyond its capacity to sustain life as we know it, we've managed to stabilize one of the things that was worrying them: the depletion of the ozone layer.

Those atoms» origin in the ozone layer might also help explain a longstanding mystery about some grains of lunar soil brought back by Apollo astronauts.

Mid-1980s: Ozone layer sees a noticeable decline from its average level of about 300 DU.

Some of these gases also degraded the atmosphere's protective ozone layer, and the news inflamed public worries about the fragility of the atmosphere.

Over the last 50 years satellite and ground - based records over Antarctica show ozone column amounts ranging from 100 to 400 Dobson units, which translates to about 1 millimeter (1/25 inch) to 5 millimeters (1/6 inch) of ozone in a layer if all of the ozone were brought down to the surface.

«During September we typically see a rapid ozone decline, ending with about 95 percent depletion in that layer by October 1.

Earth's storm clouds are stopped about 20 kilometres up by a layer of warm air heated by ozone, which absorbs the sun's ultraviolet rays.

And there were meetings on the Mediterranean, science fiction and European science history; TV programmes about polar ecology, science and society, the Baltic Sea, materials, AIDS, communications and the ozone layer; and workshops on plant molecular biology, development in the tropics and synchrotrons.

They also tolerated periods of temperatures up to 41 °C and, separately, high ultraviolet radiation — which might come about from damage to the ozone layer.

He also noted that the Montreal Protocol, as a side effect, has bought us about 10 years time in the climate issue, because the now banned CFC's also have a greenhouse effect in addition to damaging the ozone layer.

«During September we typically see a rapid ozone decline, ending with about 95 percent depletion in that layer by October 1,» Bryan Johnson, a researcher at the Earth System Research Laboratory, said in a press release.

By 2060 the ozone layer is effectively extinct and without it, the Earth's surface is a much less friendly place: You would only have to be outside for about five minutes to get sunburned and the incidence of skin cancer would increase substantially.

But it is also well known that just looking at fields of total ozone does not tell us much about chemical loss (total ozone is a measure of the «thickness» of the ozone layer).

We talk about the new paper «Evidence for a continuous decline in lower stratospheric ozone offsetting ozone layer recovery» as published February 6, 2018.

After uncovering the truth about a government program that will destroy the ozone layer, they must find a way to save humanity and all of nature!

This activity includes information about natural and human caused air pollution and the effects to our ozone layer and environment.

Undo the four compressor bolts, and move the compressor out of the way - do NOT disconnect any lines to the compressor, or you'll lose all refrigerant, the ozone layer will shrink a little, and somewhere, a small kitten will die (OK, not sure about the kitten).

In a few years from now when it finally dawns on people that we have been taken for the umpteenth scare ride (Club of Rome, Paul Ehrlich, Acid rain, Ozone layer, DDT and many more) the Media will look to themselves and wonder, «how the hell could we be this stupid» Time Magazine and Newsweek know all about that after reporting on the «next Ice Age» scare of the 1970s.

But it is also well known that just looking at fields of total ozone does not tell us much about chemical loss (total ozone is a measure of the «thickness» of the ozone layer).

For two decades, herpetologists were caught up in a debate about a wide range of factors — from damage to the ozone layer to pesticides — that might be contributing to the amphibian die - offs, many of which were occurring in seemingly pristine places.

In the CFC story there was a significant time lag between scientists sounding the first warnings (Molina & Rowland 1974) about potential damage to the ozone layer from CFCs and the ultimately unstoppable political momentum to get rid of CFCs (Montreal 1987, London 1990, etc.).

You really will wind up extinct from enabling people who lie into your faces about things like the effect of halogenated refrigerants on the ozone layer, fully confirmed by laboratory experiments as well as field observation.

But the threat to the ozone layer sent a stinging message about how fragile the atmosphere was, how easily human activity might damage it.

«These observations reinforce concerns about the frailty of Earth's ozone layer.

«A key source of information about the health of the ozone layer above the Arctic looks set to be choked off.

If the principal Judges in the US receive 100,000 emails informing them about the ongoing scheme of crime that is destroying the environment (and the Ozone layer) which is the climate engineering plan that is being implemented by the government in these last decades, nothing will happen?

The ozone layer is a long - standing natural feature of the stratosphere, the part of the atmosphere that begins about 6 miles above the earth.

Even so, it has not been regarded as a threat to the ozone layer, because its typical lifetime in the atmosphere before it is broken down in photochemical reactions is only about five months.

The Antarctic hole would be 40 percent bigger than it is; the ozone layer over Europe and North America would be 10 percent thinner; the 2011 Arctic hole would have been Antarctic - sized; and we would be looking at about 2 million more cases of skin cancers by 2030, according to research conducted by Chipperfield and colleagues.

If you knew the slightest thing about the problem with ozone destroying chemicals, of which the chlorinated freons were prime culprits, you would know that they were a problem because they were supremely stable in the lower atmosphere (pure chlorine not so at all), and were able to transport chlorine to the ozone layer (unlike natural chlorine compounds), whereupon UV light broke them down, released the chlorine, starting a chain reaction destroying the ozone.

We talk about the new paper «Evidence for a continuous decline in lower stratospheric ozone offsetting ozone layer recovery» as published February 6, 2018.

Paul Crutzen talks about family background, early education and interest in natural science; his work in the Institute of Meteorology in Stockholm (5:02); his discovery (6:55); the ozone layer (15:42); the Greenhouse Effect (19:10); ozone holes (23:43); and the consequences of a «Nuclear winter» (27:09).

Icelandic volcanoes are about 30 degrees away from the pole, too far except for the strongest eruptions, to be swept - up (in suficient enough concentration) into the stratosphere by polar vortex, hence the ozone layer there is more stable, despite fact there was more CFC around in the Nth than Sth hemisphere.

«The Reagan administration was generally skeptical about costly environmental rules, but with respect to protection of the ozone layer, Reagan was an environmentalist hero.

Continued monitoring of ozone and ozone - depleting substances is essential for verification of ozone layer recovery as expected by about 2050, which hinges on the complete elimination of atmospheric ozone - depleting substances.

CFCs are incredibly stable molecules that must travel high into the stratosphere before breaking down, so though the phasing out of CFCs is working, the impact of the Montreal Protocol won't be noticeable in the ozone layer until about 2025, Kramarova said.

At about 12.4 miles (20 kilometers) above the Earth in the stratosphere where the ozone layer is normally concentrated, most of it has been depleted, said Markus Rex, an ozone researcher with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany.

As is reported over at PJ Media, in spite of very recent claims of an ozone recovery, conveniently timed with a celebration of the Montreal Protocol's 25th anniversary, there is much dispute about the state of the ozone layer.

The 2nd biggest lie was about man's effect on the ozone layer.

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And in March 2015, Shultz penned «A Reagan approach to climate change» (Washington Post), reminding readers of President Reagan's bold response to scientific alarm about thinning of the Earth's ozone layer which led to the Montreal Protocol, a treaty phasing out ozone - depleting chemicals.

Observations of ozone show a thinning of the Earth's protective stratospheric ozone layer by about 3 to 8 % overall since the 1970s.

The Earth's ozone layer is located in the lower stratosphere, which lies just above the troposphere (which begins at the planet's surface and reaches up to about 12 km), catching harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun.