Sentences with phrase «destroy ozone so»

Their measurements, focusing on a time period in September each year — during which time the colder temperatures in the atmosphere promote the reactions that destroy ozone so that the hole is opening up — show that since 2000, the hole has shrunk by 1.7 million square miles, an area more than half the size of the continental United States.

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Why would God make it so complicated??? Seems like God would just say something like «Let there be life» and be done with it, and we wouldn't need an ozone layer, and there wouldn't be astroids or comets that could destroy us.

Hamilton provides an example of why the upward airflow is so significant: «The manufacture of ozone - destroying chemicals such as the freon compounds used in the past in spray cans and in refrigerators has been largely banned for over 20 years.

Rapid reversals of Earth's magnetic field 550 million years ago destroyed a large part of the ozone layer and let in a flood of ultraviolet radiation, devastating the unusual creatures of the so - called Ediacaran Period and triggering an evolutionary flight from light that led to the Cambrian explosion of animal groups.

The scientists concluded that as much as 10 per cent of the ozone destroyed so far — which amounts to between 4 and 6 per cent of the preindustrial amount of ozone — has been destroyed by methyl bromide.

And we learn that it became so hot in the upper atmosphere that ozone was destroyed.

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.

... «As the rocket launch market grows, so will ozone - destroying rocket emissions,» said Professor Darin Toohey of CU - Boulder's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department.

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.

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.

So in the 1980s, we received their messages through television «programs» (do you understand why they are called programs — to program the minds of the masses) that the Ozone Layer had been damaged / destroyed.

In 1987, under the Montreal Protocol, countries agreed to end production of ozone - destroying substances, including chlorofluorocarbons — but because they linger in the atmosphere, ozone losses aren't expected to end for the next 50 years or so, Rex said.

RR: Almost all CFCs and HCFCs are non-natural, so destroying these would provide no adverse consequences (alongside a number of additional environmental benefits as these compounds can lead to dangerous ozone depletion as well).

It's now known that ozone is destroyed in the stratosphere and that some human - released chemicals such as CFC's are speeding up the breakdown of ozone, so that there are «holes» now in our protective shield.