Sentences with phrase «destroyed ozone layer»

The result would be a planet on which humans could work and survive outdoors in the summer only in mountainous regions [115,116]-- and there they would need to contend with the fact that a moist stratosphere would have destroyed the ozone layer [117].

We can not blow up the world and continue to live on it; we can not destroy the ozone layer without risking skin cancer; we can not pollute all waters and be able to drink; we can not denude the surface of trees and expect the soil not to erode.

Thirty years ago, the Montreal Protocol was agreed to phase - out chemicals destroying the ozone layer, the UV - radiation shield in the Earth's stratosphere.

The potent radiation would cook the atmosphere, creating nitrogen oxides that would destroy the ozone layer.

Benítez says that a supernova could have gone off at a mere 100 light - years away — close enough to have blasted Earth with high - energy cosmic rays and destroy the ozone layer.

But per atom, bromine is 40 times as effective as chlorine at destroying the ozone layer.

All these chemicals need to be destroyed before they can escape into the environment and destroy the ozone layer.

For example, they say, injecting sulfate particles into the atmosphere would largely destroy the ozone layer over the Arctic and set back attempts to mend the «hole» that appears seasonally over the Antarctic.

Once aerosols are that high they can spread globally, destroy the ozone layer that protects us from ultraviolet radiation and exacerbate global warming, researchers warn.

Ueno says that once aerosols are in the stratosphere they become very stable and can last for years, compared with days or weeks in the troposphere, and they can activate compounds such as chlorine that destroy the ozone layer.

This gas helps destroy the ozone layer.

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.

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!

These organisms released enormous quantities of hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere, which had the effect of poisoning most life on land, and destroying the ozone layer.

The Montreal Protocol, often referred to as the world's most successful environmental treaty, was created in 1987 to eliminate the use of the chemicals that were discovered to be destroying the ozone layer.

But in 1987, the world got together and passed the Montreal Protocol, which banned CFCs and replaced them with HCFCs and HFCs, which don't destroy the ozone layer.

«Global geoengineering is completely disrupting the hydrological cycle, destroying the ozone layer (which is exposing all life on Earth to extreme UV radiation), and contaminating the entire surface of the planet with highly toxic bioavailable heavy metals and chemicals.

In 1974, Dr. Mario Molina and Dr. Sherwood Roland of the University of California published a paper asserting that chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) pollution from industry was destroying the ozone layer in Earth's stratosphere.

Geoengineering solution to global warming could destroy the ozone layer (04/24/2008) A proposed plan to fight global warming by injecting sulfate particles into Earth's upper atmosphere could damage the ozone layer over the Arctic and Antarctic, report researchers writing in the journal Science.

Geoengineering operations are not only cutting off precipitation from the US West and destroying the ozone layer globally, the desiccant particulates from the fallout create an incendiary dust that coats foliage and structures.

Climate engineering programs are completely disrupting natural weather and climate cycles all over the world, destroying the ozone layer, and decreasing the overall hydrological cycle (which, in turn, fuels record drought and firestorms).

Avipsa Mahapatra [AM]: This year marks 30 years since the adoption of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the framework agreement which gave birth to the Montreal Protocol, which established to phase out the chemicals that were destroying the ozone layer.

The oceans lose their oxygen and turn stagnant, releasing poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas and destroying the ozone layer.

Gone are the days of senselessly destroying the ozone layer and global climate.

HFCs have been commercialized to replace the chemicals that were destroying the ozone layer, but while HFCs do not destroy ozone, they have extremely high global warming potentials and are contributing to global climate change.

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are a class of chemical refrigerants that destroy the ozone layer and warm our planet.

That is how we discovered that CFC's were destroying the ozone layer and causing increased cancer rates.

Once aerosols are that high they can spread globally, destroy the ozone layer that protects us from ultraviolet radiation and exacerbate global warming, researchers warn.»

It was retroactively incorporated into the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on substances that destroy the ozone layer.

In September 1987 twenty four countries signed the Montreal Protocol, beginning the phaseout of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other materials that destroy the ozone layer.

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.

The hydrochlorofluorocarbon gases (HFCs) used in refrigerants that replaced chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were destroying the ozone layer, are anywhere from 146 to 12,500 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in their global warming potential.

Not exact matches

Koann Vikoren Skrzyniarz is the Founder and CEO of Sustainable Life Media and Sustainable Brands whose involvement with the intersection of environmental and human issues in business dates back to the mid-1980s when she launched international conferences on improving log utilization, reducing Waste Paper, and eliminating ozone - layer destroying chemicals (CFCs).

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.

There they destroy the layer of ozone that screens out some of the sun s destructive rays.

In 2004, Looy and her former Ph.D. advisor Henk Visscher proposed one way this might have played out, bases on fossilized abnormal plant spores found worldwide: volcanic gases — halocarbons like methyl chloride and methyl bromide — destroyed much or all of Earth's ozone layer, boosting UV - B exposure that would have affected life and potentially increased the genetic mutation rates in pollen and spores of plants worldwide.

The measures don't reveal exactly how much bromine is in the upper atmosphere, where the ozone layer sits, but they can be used to predict how much of the ozone - destroying chemical will eventually make its way there.

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

Those techniques have led to everything from the development of catalysts that remove poisonous carbon monoxide from car exhaust to the understanding of how ice crystals in stratospheric clouds supercharge atmospheric chlorine's ability to destroy the planet's protective ozone layer.

Companies in Europe could import thousands of tonnes of banned or restricted ozone - destroying compounds this year because of a loophole in the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty that protects the ozone layer.

If the sun spews «superflares» as often as other stars, one could take down power systems, damage the ozone layer and destroy satellites in the next century

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.

AMERICA's Republicans thumbed their noses at the vast majority of the world's scientists last week by claiming that there is no proof that CFCs are destroying the Earth's ozone layer.

HCFCs are themselves replacements for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), ozone - destroying chemicals banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Lozone - destroying chemicals banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LOzone Layer.

That star, called Eta Carinae, could explode like SN 2006gy, which «probably wouldn't be good for Earth,» Corcoran says, because the event could destroy communications satellites and damage the planet's healing ozone layer.

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.

Each year, ozone - depleting compounds in the upper atmosphere destroy the protective ozone layer, and in particular above Antarctica.

Ozone should recover to its pre-1980 levels by the middle of this century and slightly later for Antarctica where the protective gas layer gets extremely thin between August and December every year, the WMO reportedly said, adding that the process can be speeded up by almost 11 years if existing stocks of ozone - depleting products, such as those found in old refrigerators and fire extinguishers are destrOzone should recover to its pre-1980 levels by the middle of this century and slightly later for Antarctica where the protective gas layer gets extremely thin between August and December every year, the WMO reportedly said, adding that the process can be speeded up by almost 11 years if existing stocks of ozone - depleting products, such as those found in old refrigerators and fire extinguishers are destrozone - depleting products, such as those found in old refrigerators and fire extinguishers are destroyed.

If our sun were to produce a large superflare, Earth's ozone layer would be destroyed, and ice on the daylight side of moons as far out as those of Jupiter or even Saturn would be melted, producing vast floodplains that refreeze after the flare subsides.

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.