Sentences with phrase «ozone hole events»

Such large ozone hole events may still occur in future years, as projections indicate that the recovery will take decades before they disappear entirely by 2055 - 2065.

Not exact matches

Volcano - fueled holes in Earth's ozone layer 252 million years ago may have repeatedly sterilized large swaths of forest, setting the stage for the world's largest mass extinction event.

«They can throw out water vapor and ice, which sets the humidity of the stratosphere, and that has an impact both because water vapor is greenhouse gas and also because water vapor, through a sequence of events, has an effect on the ozone hole,» Romps said.

Some stations launch an ozonesonde twice a week, others only once a month, others only during special events (e.g. ozone hole season) or campaigns.

There are a lot of questions: what is the climate response to solar activity and no solar activity, changes in TSI, spectral variability, particle events, cosmic - ray variability, volcanic aerosols, the Antarctic ozone hole.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?