Sentences with phrase «destroying stratospheric ozone»

And recognizing that developed and developing countries had differing legitimate concerns, the international ozone agreements called for developed countries to take the lead in addressing the issue, because these nations had produced most of the substances implicated in destroying stratospheric ozone.

Robert Watson, a government official and co-chair of the scientific panel that advises the Montreal Protocol, said that laboratory experiments, computer models, and field measurements all support the conclusion that CFCs are destroying stratospheric ozone.

The chemicals companies that make CFCs want refrigerator makers to switch to HFCs, which are similar to CFCs but do not contain the chlorine that destroys stratospheric ozone.

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

It controls the consumption and production of chlorine - and bromine - containing chemicals that destroy stratospheric ozone, such as chlorofluorocarbons, methyl chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and many others.

Halocarbons have an indirect effect because they destroy stratospheric ozone.

Not exact matches

An eerie «polar stratospheric cloud,» which destroys ozone at a rapid rate, hangs above Kiruna, Sweden, in January 2000.

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.

THE world's highest - flying spy plane, the Russian M - 55, is about to give European scientists their first close - up view of the thin, stratospheric clouds that destroy ozone.

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-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-stratospheric volcanic eruptions, and thus also providing a spurious anthropogenic post-2000 forcing.

Along with the resent reach on ozone - destroying thunderstorms, I wonder if the success of the Montreal Protocol could be endangered by global warming (or in the case of the Arctic winter, stratospheric cooling.)

An unusual persistence of cold temperatures in the stratosphere into March, allowing longer lifetimes for the polar stratospheric clouds that enable conversion of pollutant gases into ozone - destroying chlorine.

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.

Since then we learned among other things that UV varies considerably, Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSC) affect ozone destruction, there is no empirical evidence that CFCs were destroying ozone.