Sentences with phrase «big ozone holes»

From Zürich, lead author Dr. William Ball says Earth's ozone shield against harmful radiation continues to weaken — despite an improvement of big ozone holes over the Poles.

From Zürich, lead author Dr. William Ball says Earth's ozone shield against harmful radiation continues to weaken — despite an improvement of big ozone holes...

From Zürich, lead author Dr. William Ball says Earth's ozone shield against harmful radiation continues to weaken — despite an improvement of big ozone holes over the Poles.

«But we can say that it will be a big ozone hole, like it has been the last few years.»

Not exact matches

Using satellites, ground - based instruments, and ozone - measuring weather balloons, they showed that since 2000, the September hole shrunk by 4 million square kilometers — an area bigger than India.

In early October 2006, the Antarctic stratosphere was the coldest it has been since 1979, and the ozone hole loomed bigger than ever, spanning an area larger than North America.

Our emissions to the atmosphere impact on natural processes, the environment, and health in very many ways — the ozone hole was the first big warning.

We have gone through this before: the acid rain used to be a big problem, then the ozone hole took over and Freon is no longer used for refrigeration which costs you dearly, and now finally we have global warming to worry about.

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.

The Antarctic ozone hole was big news in the eighties.

If you believe government scientists saved the world from DDT, overpopulation, acid rain, the ozone hole — just as they have rescued polar bears from the brink of extinction and stopped the seas from rising — then, I have a photograph you might want to buy of George Bush and Big Foot playing hockey.

Paradoxically, the ozone hole in 2011 was about as big as it was in 2006, even though CFCs should have declined in those years due to the phasing out of their use.

Using a computer model, they showed that weather conditions would have lowered the amount of ozone over Antarctica anyways, and that the big hole was a result of winds from the tropics carrying less ozone to the area than in the years before.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

A bigger hole in the ozone layer over Northern Hemisphere countries could mean more UV damage to humans, animals and plants.

Hahaha — And don't forget that the trees in question are in the NH, while the big bad ozone hole is in the SH.