Sentences with phrase «n't destroy the ozone»

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.

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.

HCFCs will eventually be replaced by substances called hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs, which do not destroy ozone at all.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Simulations that don't include the effect of CH2Cl2 suggest that high - altitude ozone in the Antarctic will return to pre-1980 levels, the concentration measured before CFCs and other ozone - destroying chemicals were recognized as a problem, in 2065.

«New ozone - destroying gases on the rise; not controlled by treaty.»

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.

Weather models are predicting some warming of the stratosphere this week, she adds, but probably not enough to halt the ozone destroying brew.

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.

Developing countries are already being paid in cash and technology for not using ozone - destroying chemicals in refrigerators and air - conditioning systems.

Firefighters have called on the world's users of halons not to destroy the ozone - depleting chemicals — or worse, release them into the air — as old fire - extinguishing systems are junked.

(Production of CFCs in now banned in most of the world, but because of their ozone destroying properties, not greenhouse properties.)

Although there isn't yet a clear explanation as to why this is happening, blame may still rest on short - lived ozone - destroying chemicals.

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.

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.

By destroying ozone (itself a greenhouse gas) in the stratosphere, CFCs also affect the climate indirectly in ways that are still not fully understood.

«Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us — and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap.

If you knew the slightest thing about the problem with ozone destroying chemicals, of which the chlorinated freons were prime culprits, you would know that they were a problem because they were supremely stable in the lower atmosphere (pure chlorine not so at all), and were able to transport chlorine to the ozone layer (unlike natural chlorine compounds), whereupon UV light broke them down, released the chlorine, starting a chain reaction destroying the ozone.

«Growing quantities of DCM are leaking into the stratosphere, where it is exceptionally effective in destroying the ozone,» said David Rowley, an atmospheric chemist at the University College London, who was not involved in the research.

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.

In 1987, under the Montreal Protocol, countries agreed to end production of ozone - destroying substances, including chlorofluorocarbons — but because they linger in the atmosphere, ozone losses aren't expected to end for the next 50 years or so, Rex said.

Although there isn't yet a clear explanation as to why this is happening, blame may still rest on short - lived ozone - destroying chemicals.

Remember when we were told that ozone destroys the ozone and not to use hairspray that had aerosols?

Although the Montreal Protocol eliminated the use of most gases which were damaging the ozone layer, its job is not done as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- the chemicals which have replaced ozone - depleting substances — are now destroying our climate.

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 CFC molecules that destroy ozone also trap heat, but the thinning of the ozone layer does not by itself make the Earth's surface hotter.

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.