Sentences with phrase «into ozone»

In a 2010 article, I detailed how she and Holdren were tied into Ozone Action's effort to smear the Oregon Petition.

On the topic raised about denial, it is troubling how some people still actively buy into the ozone depletion denialism, in spite of the science standing the test of time and inaction not being an option any more.

Seventeen years after the Ozone Hole was discovered, NASA Science News reported «Peering into the Ozone Hole» (Fig 2) asking a serious question [5]: «Image of the record - size ozone hole taken by NASA satellites on September 9, 2000.

That almost doesn't matter because oxygen is also absorbing the UV and converting into ozone.

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.

When nitrogen oxides are present in the atmosphere and exposed to sunlight they turn into ozone and have been found to form acid rain.

Proposals for the first trials to cool the planet include cloud brightening and spraying aerosols into the ozone layer.

Instead, it can split the multimer directly into ozone and oxygen molecules.

No, I am not going to get into ozone depletion theory.

Weber, M., Coldewey - Egbers, M., Fioletov, V. E., Frith, S. M., Wild, J. D., Burrows, J. P., Long, C. S., and Loyola, D.: Total ozone trends from 1979 to 2016 derived from five merged observational datasets — the emergence into ozone recovery, Atmos.

«are the medium on which reservoir chlorine compounds are converted into ozone - destroying chlorine radicals.»

We might not be able to see the CO2 rising into the atmosphere just as we were not able to see the CFCs that were going into the Ozone layer and destroying it like little Pac - Men gobbling away at these molecules that protect us from the suns more caustic rays.

He employed a sales force of 75, armed with the memorable slogan «Out of the Smoke Zone, Into the Ozone», to entice Birmingham residents over Red Mountain.

Though it drifts off into the ozone at the end, for most of its running time, «Never Here» is a low - key but effective psychological thriller which flirts with that looming issue of the social - media age: privacy, and the invasion thereof.

If you own a hot tub, look into an ozone purification system.

(Such low air temperatures encourage the formation of icy clouds in the upper atmosphere known as polar stratospheric clouds, which foster the chemical reactions that turn harmless chlorine compounds into ozone eradicators.)

Volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides from Asian cars and industry mix in the atmosphere as they cross the Pacific Ocean and convert in sunlight into ozone, a main ingredient in smog, Jaffe explains.

Fears that CFCs and other synthetic chemicals might be eating into the ozone layer seemed unfounded.

Not exact matches

The company also pumps ozone into rooms where fruit is being stored to kill bacteria and reduce pathogens that can harm apples.

Lastly, Cristalia injects ozone into the water to eliminate any last traces of bacteria.

As Matthew Hoffmann has argued [2], the ozone negotiations marked a normative shift over the desirability of universal participation in global environmental negotiations, a shift that was locked into the initial negotiations on climate change.

At a 2008 party honoring Seminerio's 30 years in the Legislature at La Bella Vita in Ozone Park, before the investigation into Seminerio became known, the legislator reflected on his legacy.

The election is the final part of the process that was done to replace the late Thomas White, who died last August, eight months into his second term as representative for the district that covers the neighborhoods of Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Rochdale and South Ozone Park.

Worst of all, the South Asian and Indo - Caribbean community in Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park are fractured into six different state assembly districts.

City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R - Ozone Park) fought a lonely battle against a barrage of Walmart criticism in Manhattan last Thursday when the Council held its second hearing on the retail giant's possible move into the five boroughs.

But in the working - class neighborhoods of Jamaica, South Ozone Park and the Rockaways, politicians turned the con into an art.

It can form a «U» starting in Jackson Heights and wrapping around East Queens cutting the 9th district into 2 as the new Hispanic district ends in ozone park.

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

It would provide important insight into how much SRM would reduce radiative heating, the concentration of water vapor in the stratosphere, and the processes that determine water vapor transport — which affects the concentration of ozone.

First was an improvement in the computer processing that transforms raw satellite observations from the Dutch - Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA's Aura spacecraft into precise estimates of sulfur dioxide concentrations.

«It underscores the necessity to control ozone entry into buildings in regions with even moderate ambient ozone levels,» says environmental health scientist Michael Apte of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

In fact, just one person in a similar size room removes as much as 25 percent of the ozone in the air, according to the results of the tests, turning it into various by - products.

This would mean, ironically, that production of ozone - friendly chemicals is actually releasing some ozone - destroying gases into the atmosphere.»

To determine whether declining pollutants deserve credit for the recovery, the researchers used a 3D atmospheric model to separate the effects of the chemicals from those of weather, which can affect ozone loss through winds and temperature, and volcanic eruptions, which deplete ozone by pumping sulfate particles into the upper atmosphere.

Emissions of ozone - depleting chemicals in places like China are especially damaging because of cold - air surges in East Asia that can quickly carry industrial pollution into the tropics.

Any nitrogen not taken up by plants is met by soil microbes that turn the fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone - depleting gas that is also 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Watson said his team still needs to determine which substances would work best at reflecting light, how much is needed to have an effect, and the possible unintended consequences of injecting the particles into the atmosphere, such as acid rain, ozone depletion or weather pattern disruption.

The magnitude of our environmental problems, such as global warming and loss of the ozone layer, is forcing us to delve into the past and into other philosophies for an answer.

Charging electric vehicles at night generates less ozone than tapping into the grid during the daytime.

«What's exciting for me personally is, this brings so much of my own work over 30 years full circle,» says Solomon, whose research into chlorine and ozone spurred the Montreal Protocol.

Oxidized nitrogen becomes part of photochemical smog and ozone and is a major component of the infamous PM 2.5, particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter that decreases visibility and is harmful when inhaled because it can penetrate deeply into the lungs.

The 1989 Montreal Protocol led to the phaseout of those chemicals, but their long atmospheric lifetime means that seasonal ozone losses will persist well into this century.

«Anytime you introduce even initially unreactive surfaces into the stratosphere, you get reactions that ultimately result in ozone destruction as they are coated with sulfuric acid,» said Keutsch.

Work then will also focus on studying to what extent chlorine - activated and ozone - depleted air masses will make its way into the densely populated middle latitudes.

That's because the clouds catalyze the reactions that mobilize chlorine into active chemicals that can react in the presence of sunlight to destroy ozone.

The reduced energy from the Sun sets into motion a sequence of events on Earth beginning with a thinning of the stratospheric ozone layer.

In the winter, intermixing of stratospheric ozone with the troposphere in a process called Stratospheric Tropospheric Exchange (STE) is the chief means of ozone transport into our air, but Dr. Wang says in summertime that process subsides and lightning bolts create significant ozone enhancements in the middle to upper troposphere, particularly in the Southeastern US.

In the harsh sunlight of the upper atmosphere, methane can react with other gases to form water vapor, which then breaks down into other chemicals that destroy ozone.

Stronger mean upward airflow transports these chemicals more quickly into the upper atmosphere, and the ozone layer will recover more quickly to its natural state before the introduction of man - made freon compounds.»

Volatile organohalogens like chloromethane strongly influence atmospheric chemistry and thereby Earth's climate by causing ozone depletion when released into the atmosphere.