Sentences with phrase «also destroy ozone»

Bromine atoms released from bromine - containing compounds that reach the stratosphere also destroy ozone by a similar mechanism.

Using a 3D atmospheric model, the researchers separated the effect of the chemicals from those of weather and volcanic emissions, which can also destroy ozone.

In the mid-1900s, scientists realized that compounds being used as coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners and as a propellant in foams — called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)-- were also destroying the ozone layer.

In the atmosphere, a portion of the nitrogen winds up as nitrous oxide — laughing gas — which is not only a greenhouse gas that is 300 times more potent that carbon dioxide, but also destroys ozone, the gas that keeps us from getting more of a dose of UV radiation.

Global climate engineering programs not only worsening the overall warming of the biosphere, but also destroying the ozone layer, derailing the hydrological cycle, and contaminating the entire planet due to the highly toxic heavy metal and chemical fallout.

Not exact matches

10 Unfortunately, nacreous clouds also support chemical reactions that convert benign chlorine - containing molecules into a form that destroys Earth's ozone layer.

In addition to allowing firefighters to control fires from a safe distance, the FIT - 5 could also replace halon fluorocarbons, an effective fire - fighting tool until they were banned in 1994 after it was discovered that they destroy Earth's ozone layer.

It also keeps tabs on chlorine and other chemicals that destroy stratospheric ozone.

Despite the fact that I do have access to the Nature article in question («Arctic trends scrutinized as chilly winter destroys ozone» by Quirin Schiermeier, published in Nature 435, 6 (5 May 2005), doi: 10.1038 / 435006b), I am also confused by the figure.

NO (known to destroy ozone quite eagerly) is a free radical that breaks the O::O doubble bond, an so does also Atomic chlorine known from the Japanese Freon - argument.

Also, the overall number of ozone molecules destroyed in a vertical column of air was pretty much the same as the number of molecules transported into this column by the average poleward and downward transport of air in the stratosphere.

So when we do things that emit GHGs, we also likely emit local pollution that kills, & becomes regional acid rain (destroying lakes, crops & forests), & acidifies the ocean, depletes the ozone layer (some pollutants), and maybe a hundre other harms, in addition to contributing to GW, and to runaway GW.

Stratospheric ozone in models is erroneously being driven CFC emissions rather than ozone destroying sulphuric acid aerosols for stratospheric volcanic eruptions, and thus also providing a spurious anthropogenic post-2000 forcing.

By destroying ozone (itself a greenhouse gas) in the stratosphere, CFCs also affect the climate indirectly in ways that are still not fully understood.

The foams sector in India is an example of successful technology transfer via the MLF to phase - out HCFC, another kind of refrigerant that not only damages the ozone layer but also destroys the climate.

Also, regarding the heated environment, and burt plant life, along with the microwaves, is the fact that UVB rays have a near free path to earth now, SAG (Stratospheric Aerosol Geo - engineering) has all but destroyed our protective ozone.

To its direct toxic effects, it could have also increased surface UV levels by destroying ozone (methane can also do this.)

These molecules also react with chlorine containing gases, converting them into forms that destroy ozone as well.

The CFC molecules that destroy ozone also trap heat, but the thinning of the ozone layer does not by itself make the Earth's surface hotter.