Sentences with phrase «destroys ozone only»
It has since been proved, says Dr. Golubchikov, that chlorine - containing Freon - 12 destroys ozone only in laboratory conditions whereas in the atmosphere, it interacts with hydrogen and falls back to Earth as acid rain before it can harm ozone.
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The chlorine, in turn, goes on to destroy ozone — but only in the presence of light.
«This is the only long - term data set with regular measurements of ozone - destroying compounds in the stratosphere,» says atmospheric chemist Darin Toohey of the University of California, Irvine.
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.
Although production of ozone - destroying gases has been curtailed under international agreements, concentrations of the gases in the stratosphere are only now reaching their peak.
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.
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.
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].
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.