Sentences with phrase «in ozone layer»

Given China's growing number of cars, along with other pollution sources — and Coke's growing market share in China, bolstered by its offer this week to buy Huiyuan, the country's largest juice maker — the machines couldn't come at a better time for the environment.How it happened Refrigerators used to rely on CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) for cooling — until it was discovered they were boring a hole in the ozone layer.

Large majorities of people incorrectly think that the hole in the ozone layer and aerosol spray cans contribute to global warming, which some concluding that banning spray cans or «stopping rockets from punching holes in the ozone layer» are effective climate change solutions.

The Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were the cause of a giant hole in the ozone layer, which has been shrinking ever since.

In the early 1980s, scientists discovered a hole in the ozone layer that forms over Antarctica during the Southern Hemisphere's spring months, from September to November.

Earlier this year, observations from the European Space Agency's MetOp weather satellite indicated that the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking.

The last words here belong to Geophysicist, Joe Farman, who, while working at the British Antarctic Survey, was part of the team who discovered the hole in the ozone layer.

19 The ozone layer The hole in the ozone layer is provoked by the gases rejected by human activity.

Those factors include stronger winds (which drag warmer water to the surface), human - caused global warming, natural variance and possibly the hole in our ozone layer.

We solved the hole in the ozone layer problem by phasing out CFCs.

We all know there's a «hole» in the ozone layer — a section of the atmosphere over Antarctica where the concentration of ozone is a lot lower than it should be.

This attitude was nailed down in 1985 when a British group announced their discovery of a «hole» in the ozone layer over Antarctica.

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

Our old friend, the Hole in the Ozone Layer.

It is designed to assist decision - makers and public health planners in determining the potential health - problems that may arise in their region from global climatic change caused by an increase in greenhouse gases and a decrease in the ozone layer.

Lovelock was also one of the first people to discover a link between CFCs and the depletion in the ozone layer through the invention of the electron capture detector, a device that detects atoms and molecules in gas.

It described trends such as the growing hole in the ozone layer, pollution and depletion of freshwater sources, overfishing, deforestation, plummeting wildlife populations, as well as unsustainable rises in greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures and human population levels.

«From his groundbreaking research that expanded understanding of the hole in the ozone layer to his work in quantifying the chemical interactions that drive climate change, Don Wuebbles has been a pioneer in atmospheric science for more than thirty years.

Even in the ozone layer the concentration of ozone is at most 1/500 of CO2 in the troposphere and this is in much thinner air.

Aside from this, the results in our papers also offer new insights into why the jet streams exist, why tropical cyclones form, weather prediction and a new theory for how ozone forms in the ozone layer, amongst many other things.

CFCs are incredibly stable molecules that must travel high into the stratosphere before breaking down, so though the phasing out of CFCs is working, the impact of the Montreal Protocol won't be noticeable in the ozone layer until about 2025, Kramarova said.

The Chapman mechanism for how ozone is formed in the ozone layer.

To test this theory, we decided to see if there was any relationship between the concentration of ozone in the ozone layer, and the phase change conditions.

It reveals a new mechanism to explain why ozone forms in the ozone layer.

We suggest that most of the ozone in the ozone layer is actually formed by the splitting up of oxygen multimers!

In 2010, the Yale Project on Climate Change released a study claiming that «less than half of Americans (45 percent) understand that carbon dioxide traps heat near the Earth's surface, and a majority think that the hole in the ozone layer contributes to global warming.»

Anyway, because the models assume the atmosphere is only in local energy equilibrium, they conclude that when the ozone absorbs the ultraviolet light, it heats up the air in the ozone layer.

This is because the ozone in the ozone layer absorbs it.

Three British scientists shocked the world when they revealed on May 16th, 1985 — 25 years ago — that aerosol chemicals, among other factors, had torn a hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole.

Good news is that many countries at COP19 have specifically identified using the Montreal Protocol, the treaty set up to tackle the hole in the ozone layer, to phase down the consumption and production of these super greenhouse gases while allowing the UNFCCC to account for HFC emissions.

And the hole in the ozone layer became the poster - child for mankind's impact on the planet.

As the company that invented HCFCs, DuPont bears significant responsibility for the hole in the ozone layer and must be a leader in refrigerant management.

The hole in the ozone layer permits UVB to get through.

Studies of potential climate change effects (e.g., changes in temperature, circulation, or the abundance of other chemicals) allow for much less ambiguity in accurately attributing any observed changes in the ozone layer to their appropriate cause.

In the mid-latitude stratosphere, for example, the decreases in the ozone layer seen in the 1980s and 1990s have not continued.

Meanwhile, «large majorities incorrectly think that the hole in the ozone layer and aerosol spray cans contribute to global warming, leading many to incorrectly conclude that banning aerosol spray cans or stopping rockets from punching holes in the ozone layer are viable solutions.»

For the first time, scientists have found convincing evidence that the gargantuan hole carved in the ozone layer by man - made chemicals is steadily shrinking.

It's a little O / T, but I recently looked into this question and found that the 1987 Montreal Protocol has done a fine job of banning CFCs but has had no discernible impact in the ozone layer.

There are unproven links in the chain of reasoning of a study that claims that more powerful thunderstorms could blast a hole in the ozone layer.

The Arctic ice pack is thinning, and in many years there is also a seasonal hole in the ozone layer.

When life on Earth ends, however, no one will know what caused it — the cause could have been ANY of the MANY environmental threats we were told were going to end life on Earth as we knew it, starting in the 1960s with DDT... then other pesticides, acid rain, hole in the ozone layer, global warming, global cooling, climate change, etc..

In this latest study, Marshall and his colleagues report that global warming - and manmade hole in the ozone layer - has changed Antarctic weather patterns.

He calculated that DCM currently contributes less than 10 percent of the chlorine in the ozone layer.

The Montreal Protocol is a 1980s - era international environmental treaty that restricted the use of some halocarbons, the chemicals causing the hole in the ozone layer.

The hole in the ozone layer above the South Pole strengthens cyclonic winds that circle the Antarctic continent.

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was created by human - produced chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that came from things like aerosol cans and air - conditioners and refrigerators.

They did not recreate the temperature and pressure conditions in the ozone layer at some 20 km over Antarctica.

This process occurs variously from 20 to 40 km above the surface in the Ozone Layer.

The hole in the ozone layer is a totally different problem than global warming.

``... This new research is interesting and provides a novel perspective on changes in the ozone layer.

... served on the IPCC Solomon was chosen to lead the National Ozone Expedition to McMurdo Sound in Antarctica to investigate the hole in the ozone layer in 1986 and another in 1987.