Sentences with phrase «ozone depletion there»

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There are risks related to ecological catastrophes (the desertification, the depletion of the Ozone layer, the deforestation, the Greenhouse effect).

There is also growing understanding of the links between atmospheric problems such as local air pollution, acid rain, global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion.

Not to worry though, because what chance is there that our scientific study results could even be related to foreign relations, other than, you know, research on global warming or acid rain or fish populations or avian - flu transmission or mad - cow - disease transmission, or ozone depletion or....

In the Northern Hemisphere, where the ozone depletion is smaller, there is no strong link between stratospheric ozone depletion and tropospheric climate.

Rates of melanoma and other skin cancers have doubled there over the past ten years, prompting a wave of hard - hitting health campaigns about the dangers of UV radiation and heightening concern about the impact that ozone depletion might have in the future.

There are multiple anthropogenic forcings that have quite different impacts (e.g. anthropogenic greenhouse gas increases, aerosols, land - use changes and, yes, stratospheric ozone depletion).

«In some sense, we might have competing effects going on in Antarctica where there is low - level CO2 warming but that may be swamped by the effects of ozone depletion,» he said.

Ozone depletion up there does not have any noticable effect on the thickness of the ozone lOzone depletion up there does not have any noticable effect on the thickness of the ozone lozone layer.

By 2040 there is not only an ozone hole above the Antarctic for the entire year, but severe ozone depletion at much lower, more populous latitudes.

Gavin's use of an «enhancement of the Antarctic polar vortex» to support model behavior is perhaps appropriate, but it seems that far and away the most important player down there is ozone depletion rather than GHG increases, at least according to Karpechko et al. (posted on - line today at GRL).

Ozone depletion up there does not have any noticable effect on the thickness of the ozone lOzone depletion up there does not have any noticable effect on the thickness of the ozone lozone layer.

The study also noted a 10 percent rise in the area of sea ice around the continent since 1980, which the authors said appears related to changes in winds ascribed to the depletion of the ozone layer there.

There may be physics that isn't included in the models that might lead to dramatic changes (c.f. the ozone hole physics that were not included in the first models of ozone depletion).

As for longer trends, there are of course other factors that could play a role, but you perhaps don't realise that the association of the trends over the last few decades with human forcings (which include other GHGs, aerosols, land use, ozone depletion etc.) are not just based on a correlations.

There is no firm evidence as yet for a long - term depletion of global ozone.

With ozone it was chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) causing ozone depletion, especially over Antarctica, but there was never any proof.

There are already many excellent volumes that capably expose the fraudulent theories about ozone depletion, global warming, pollution, pesticides, cancer risks, nuclear power, PCBs, asbestos, acid rain, deforestation, carbon dioxide, biodiversity, soil depletion, etc. 2 Rather, we hope to demonstrate convincingly that concerns about the environment (some overblown, others completely fabricated) are being cynically exploited by influential individuals and organizations whose goal includes building a global tyranny.

As of this writing, there is observational and modeling evidence that: 1) both annular modes are sensitive to month - to - month and year - to - year variability in the stratospheric flow (see section on Stratosphere / troposphere coupling, below); 2) both annular modes have exhibited long term trends which may reflect the impact of stratospheric ozone depletion and / or increased greenhouse gases (see section on Climate Change, below); and 3) the NAM responds to changes in the distribution of sea - ice over the North Atlantic sector.

If O2 captured UVB, there would be no problem with ozone depletion.

«There are many examples demonstrating how societies can draw the right conclusions on the basis of scientific facts: acid rain, ozone depletion and smoking,» he said.

There have been many, many examples from Y2K to domestic terrorism, acid rain, ozone depletion, global cooling, over-population, internment of all Japanese - Americans, peak oil, etc, etc, etc..

Ed Cook of the Lamont Tree - Ring Lab tells me that there is some speculation that stratospheric ozone depletion may have affected the trees, in which case the pre-1950 record is OK.

Costa Rican coffee plantains have had colder and wetter than normal conditions since the mid 90s and since the 1998 El Nino there has been some interesting issues with convection changes and tropical ozone depletion which may be related to the thermal equator migration.

«There are several reasons why there should be opposite trends: 1) depletion of ozone, e.g. by CFCs 2) increased CO2 3) changing of upwards traveling planetary waves [which break and heat the stratosphere.&rThere are several reasons why there should be opposite trends: 1) depletion of ozone, e.g. by CFCs 2) increased CO2 3) changing of upwards traveling planetary waves [which break and heat the stratosphere.&rthere should be opposite trends: 1) depletion of ozone, e.g. by CFCs 2) increased CO2 3) changing of upwards traveling planetary waves [which break and heat the stratosphere.»

Chemically, there will be an increase in ozone depletion (due to increases in heterogenous surface chemistry in the stratosphere), increases in acid rain, possibly an increase in high cirrus cloud cover due to indirect effects of the sulphates on cloud lifetime.

There is a substantial case for linking anthropogenic impacts of Antarctic stratospheric ozone depletion (due to CFCs) and greenhouse warming on the southern hemisphere atmospheric circulations and Australian climate.

Chemically, there will be an increase in ozone depletion (due to increases in heterogeneous surface chemistry in the stratosphere), increases in acid rain, possibly an increase in high cirrus cloud cover due to indirect effects of the sulphates on cloud lifetime.

Given that we wouldn't have to get much farther than 0.5 Pinatubos before 2050, this gives plenty of time to see if there are any ozone depletion effects.

For example, the U.S. ratified the Montreal Protocol when there was much less public concern about ozone depletion.

Aside from confirming the presence of the tropospheric hotspot, Sherwood and Nishant also discovered that there was a 10 percent increase in wind speed over the Southern Ocean, a finding that is suggestive of ozone depletion.

Published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Thursday, the study uses satellite observations to demonstrate that the decline in atmospheric chlorine that resulted from the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, enacted in 1989, has led to «about 20 percent less ozone depletion during the Antarctic winter than there was in 2005 — the first year that measurements of chlorine and ozone during the Antarctic winter were made by NASA's Aura satellite.»