Sentences with phrase «ozone hole developed»

Also from the late 1970s through the 1990s, in the Southern Hemisphere the Antarctic ozone hole developed and deepened.

(Indirectly, I think it's possible that using radiation management to ameliorate warming might have some indirect effect, because ozone depletion occurs at low temperatures — that's why ozone holes develop in the winter at the poles — and rad / man would imply that we failed to address carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

... This brings up the nightmarish thought that if the chemical industry had developed organobromine compounds instead of the CFCs — or alternatively, if chlorine chemistry would have run more like that of bromine — then without any preparedness, we would have been faced with a catastrophic ozone hole everywhere and at all seasons during the 1970s, probably before the atmospheric chemists had developed the necessary knowledge to identify the problem and the appropriate techniques for the necessary critical measurements.

Although this effect is dramatic, it is difficult to predict whether similar Arctic ozone holes will develop in future.

I would hazard a guess that during periods of high obliquity that ozone holes have naturally developed.

``... the nightmarish thought that if the chemical industry had developed organobromine compounds instead of the CFCs — or alternatively, if chlorine chemistry would have run more like that of bromine — then without any preparedness, we would have been faced with a catastrophic ozone hole everywhere and at all seasons during the 1970s, probably before the atmospheric chemists had developed the necessary knowledge to identify the problem and the appropriate techniques for the necessary critical measurements.