Sentences with phrase «ozone damage because»

In contrast, the tropics, already warm, do not benefit from further warming, but they are not as hard hit by ozone damage because ozone - precursor emissions are lower in the tropics.

Not exact matches

In September, the ozone hole is at its largest because the cold winter months coupled with the returning daylight permit stratospheric cloud formations that do the most damage to the ozone layer.

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.

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.

However, production will effectively end within the next 18 months because of the damage they do to the ozone layer.

He also noted that the Montreal Protocol, as a side effect, has bought us about 10 years time in the climate issue, because the now banned CFC's also have a greenhouse effect in addition to damaging the ozone layer.

China and South Asia, on the other hand, will see the most ozone - related damage to wheat, rice and soybean crops because of the chronically high levels of toxic air pollution.

This occurs because transportation in North America produces a substantial amount of black carbon (soot) and ozone (a main ingredient in smog), both of which warm climate, while power generation leads to a large amount of sulfate particles, which cool climate even as they also lead to acid rain and damage human health.

This is problematic because ozone blocks harmful radiation — which can damage DNA and lead to skin cancer, among other problems — from reaching the Earth's surface.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

The ALA certainly does not disclose to voters that the Obama administration rejected any tightening of the federal ozone standard in 2011 because of the economic damage it would cause.

Other corporate giants like Du Pont are lowering their output of certain chemicals, the CFCs, that contribute to global warming, an action that began years ago because some of the same chemicals damage the ozone layer.

The stratospheric ozone layer contains 90 % of the world's known ozone (Chasek et al 164), and is life giving because it absorbs ultraviolet radiation, large amounts of which damage all forms of life.

Of course that space tourism would be disapproved by environmental community because such trips will damage completely protective ozone and we will be expecting inevitable convulsion of nature.