Sentences with phrase «on ozone in»

A few years ago I was summoned to appear before the Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Ozone in Ottawa.

Perturbations to lightning could have a large effect on ozone in the upper troposphere (Toumi et al., 1996; Thompson et al., 2000; Martin et al., 2002; Wong et al., 2004).

What studies have been done in the paleo record regarding CO2 effects on ozone in the stratosphere and how it affected life?

The East Asian monsoon exerts a controlling influence on ozone in Southern China.

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Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

Koann Vikoren Skrzyniarz is the Founder and CEO of Sustainable Life Media and Sustainable Brands whose involvement with the intersection of environmental and human issues in business dates back to the mid-1980s when she launched international conferences on improving log utilization, reducing Waste Paper, and eliminating ozone - layer destroying chemicals (CFCs).

Throughout the essays are scattered references to everything from ozone depletion to recycling strategies to the effects of American pet shops on the population of parrots in New Guinea — and recommendations of particular courses of action: Aeschliman's commendation of conservancy strategies, for instance, through which churches purchase endangered land to ensure preservation.

By the late 1980s it became clear that global atmospheric pollution causing both the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer had become critical threats to life on earth (Henderson - Sellers & Blong 1989).

In the case of the attack on the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons, the impact could be made negligible by operating on the T factor alone, that is, ban the offending chemical.

Nature may kick back at us from time to time — with erosion, pollution, holes in the ozone layer and so on — but we like to think that these are simply impersonal matters of ecological imbalance.

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

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.

The marginal impact that years of climate negotiations have made on the pace and direction of global greenhouse gas emissions finds its roots, at least in part, in the successes of the ozone negotiations.

The Assembly bill, which does not have a sponsor in the state Senate, is sponsored by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) with eight Queens Assembly members signing on to the bill: Barbara Clark (D - Queens Village), Michael DenDekker (D - Jackson Heights), Phil Goldfeder (D - Ozone Park), Rory Lancman (D - Fresh Meadows), Marge Markey (D - Maspeth), Grace Meng (D - Flushing), Mike Miller (D - Woodhaven) and Francisco Moya (D - Jackson Heights).

Smith noted that two key Republicans — U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R - Kew Gardens) and Councilman Eric Ulrich (R - Ozone Park)-- were at the inauguration and he called on Goldfeder to continue to lead in a bipartisan manner.

Baldeo, an Ozone Park attorney who has run for several elected offices in the past decade, said he is collecting signatures to meet Monday's deadline to be on the -LSB-...]

Speaking outside St. Mary Gate of Heaven church in Ozone Park Malliotakis laid out her broad campaign themes and parried repeated questions focused on the many electoral challenges she faces.

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.

During an appearance Friday evening on former governor David Paterson's WOR radio show, Governor Andrew Cuomo said talks with gambling giant Genting to build a casino and convention center at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park «haven't really worked out,» and that he's shopping around for another developer.

Kenny Ortiz, 36, of Ozone Park, was sentenced in Brooklyn Supreme Court Friday after pleading guilty last month to aggravated assault on an officer for the March 2, 2014 incident, which left a 40 - year - old NYPD detective with numerous broken bones and other wounds, according to acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

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.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether he has requested a derogation from EU air quality legislation in relation to limits on the levels of pollution from (a) nitrogen dioxide, (b) ozone and (c) other nitrogen oxides.

Bidders on the Aqueduct racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, will have to prove their ability to pay the state $ 200 million within 30 days of winning the redevelopment rights to the project, Governor Paterson wrote in a letter to the companies on Friday.

Paterson had asked the New York Racing Authority and the New York State Lottery to whittle the list of six applicants down based on any structural defects in their proposals for the Ozone Park facility.

In the meantime, Wills said he is spending time letting his constituents come to him and provide feedback on Council District 28, which includes the neighborhoods of Jamaica, South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and Rochdale Village.

Let the Chronicles of Planet New York forever reflect that on Jan. 4, 2012, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared that the state's most vital need was to build the nation's largest convention center in Ozone Park, Queens, on the site of Aqueduct Racetrack.

SUN AUGUST 13 AT 6:00 PM — TUDOR PARK — LADY AND THE VAMPS (Pop / Rock cover band) @ Tudor Park, 133rd Avenue between 81st and 82nd Streets in Ozone Park Lady and the Vamps is a band that covers a range of genres from jazz standards like «Cheek to Cheek» to chart topping hits like «All About That Bass» The band has an impressive and unique sound and its members pride themselves on their technical abilities, improvisational skills, and musical versatility.

The Concert Series kicks off this weekend on Sunday, July 9 in Rockaway Beach, and runs through mid-August at parks in Rockaway Beach, College Point, Springfield Gardens, Far Rockaway, Bayside, Middle Village, Ozone Park and the campus of St. John's University in Jamaica.

Recent increases in an unregulated ozone - depleting substance, could delay recovery of Antarctic ozone levels by 5 - 30 years, depending on emissions scenarios.

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In three separate indoor UV chambers, Benca exposed the dwarf pines to 7.5, 10 and 13 times Berkeley's normal UV - B intensity, in line with estimates of the impact Siberian Trap eruptions would have had on the ozone layer if their emissions occurred over various lengths of time, ranging from 400,000 years to less than 200,000 yearIn three separate indoor UV chambers, Benca exposed the dwarf pines to 7.5, 10 and 13 times Berkeley's normal UV - B intensity, in line with estimates of the impact Siberian Trap eruptions would have had on the ozone layer if their emissions occurred over various lengths of time, ranging from 400,000 years to less than 200,000 yearin line with estimates of the impact Siberian Trap eruptions would have had on the ozone layer if their emissions occurred over various lengths of time, ranging from 400,000 years to less than 200,000 years.

In 2004, Looy and her former Ph.D. advisor Henk Visscher proposed one way this might have played out, bases on fossilized abnormal plant spores found worldwide: volcanic gases — halocarbons like methyl chloride and methyl bromide — destroyed much or all of Earth's ozone layer, boosting UV - B exposure that would have affected life and potentially increased the genetic mutation rates in pollen and spores of plants worldwidIn 2004, Looy and her former Ph.D. advisor Henk Visscher proposed one way this might have played out, bases on fossilized abnormal plant spores found worldwide: volcanic gases — halocarbons like methyl chloride and methyl bromide — destroyed much or all of Earth's ozone layer, boosting UV - B exposure that would have affected life and potentially increased the genetic mutation rates in pollen and spores of plants worldwidin pollen and spores of plants worldwide.

First sighted over Antarctica in the mid-1980s, the so - called ozone hole led to an international ban on CFCs in 1987.

Mark Potosnak of DePaul University in Chicago and his colleagues measured terpene emissions from plants on sidewalks in Las Vegas, Nevada, and ozone levels downwind.

Brock LeBaron, deputy director of Utah's Division of Air Quality, which has funded some of the work in the basin and been focusing on reducing ozone pollution there, said that upcoming efforts to improve air quality should also result in reduced methane emissions in the near future.

«Despite some reductions in air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?

On the contrary, the use of currently recommended photochemical parameters leads to insufficient ozone destruction in the model.

The squalene on these pseudo — office workers» skin soon began to interact with the ozone in the chamber.

At present, the long - term recovery of the Ozone Layer from the effects of CFCs is still on track, but the presence of increasing dichloromethane will lead to uncertainty in our future predictions of ozone and climate.&rOzone Layer from the effects of CFCs is still on track, but the presence of increasing dichloromethane will lead to uncertainty in our future predictions of ozone and climate.&rozone and climate.»

But some of those products go on to interact with yet more ozone in the air to form dicarbonyls — the aforementioned 4 - OPA, plus 1,4 - butanedial, 4 - MON and 4 - MOD.

In the study, the researchers used a 3D computer model of the atmosphere to determine the impact of VSLS on ozone and climate.

If Proxima b proves to have an atmosphere, Loeb and Kreidberg have also proposed using Webb to probe for the infrared signature of ozone in Proxima Centauri's glare as a possible sign that the planet's air is filled with oxygen — something that, on Earth, is mostly produced by life.

This is important, as a molecule of ozone lost in this region has a far larger impact on climate than a molecule destroyed at higher altitudes by longer - lived gases.»

Earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades thanks to concerted international action against ozone depleting substances, according to a new assessment by 300 scientists.

The intensification of winds in the Southern Ocean is a result of both the depletion of ozone and global warming's affects on the Southern Annular Mode (SAM).

The images above show the Antarctic ozone hole on September 16 (the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer) in the years 1979, 1987, 2006, and ozone hole on September 16 (the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer) in the years 1979, 1987, 2006, and Ozone Layer) in the years 1979, 1987, 2006, and 2011.

Franck Montmessin of the LATMOS atmospheric research centre in France says ozone forms when sunlight breaks up carbon dioxide molecules on the planet's daylight side.

What happens to the ozone layer in the second half of the 21st century will largely depend on concentrations of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide — the three main long - lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The chlorine, in turn, goes on to destroy ozone — but only in the presence of light.

While CO2 stimulates reproduction and growth in plants, ozone has a negative impact on plant growth, the authors point out.