Sentences with phrase «ozone holes like»

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Global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, starvation and malnutrition, war, unemployment, the destruction of species and the rain forests, pollution of water and air, pesticide and herbicide poisoning, errors in genetic engineering, erosion of topsoil, overfishing, anarchy and crime, the possibility of a nuclear mishap, chemical warfare or all - out nuclear war: together, or in some cases singly, these dangers threaten to «catch us unexpectedly, like a trap.»

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.

«But we can say that it will be a big ozone hole, like it has been the last few years.»

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, doi: 10.1029 / 2011GL049784 Arctic winter 2010/2011 at the brink of an ozone hole ``... severe ozone depletion like in 2010/2011 or even worse could appear for cold Arctic winters over the next decades if the observed tendency for cold Arctic winters to become colder continues into the future....»

Global warming is widely viewed at the policy level as a pollution problem like acid rain, smog, or the ozone hole.

... 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.

I just made that number up trying to come up with a blow - the - doors - off surprise, something like the ozone hole.

It seems like the effort has all been worth it, as Professor Susan Solomon of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a team of scientists from NCAS and the University of Leeds report the «first signs of healing» of the ozone layer, confirming predictions that the hole in the ozone layer could close by the middle of this century.

Unlike conventional environmental problems like acid rain or the ozone hole, climate change is not conventionally solvable.

And, just like we could tell that the burn in the ozone hole was man - made in the 80's, we can tell that we are causing this particular deviation.

Stratospheric circulation slowly shifts the contours of the ozone hole over the course of the day (like winds shift the location of clouds).

Like global warming is now the ozone hoax was a black hole manufactured by Leftists, into which the productive class were supposed to shovel their hard - earned wages into so schoolteachers can save the world from Americans who like to take a hot shower before driving to wLike global warming is now the ozone hoax was a black hole manufactured by Leftists, into which the productive class were supposed to shovel their hard - earned wages into so schoolteachers can save the world from Americans who like to take a hot shower before driving to wlike to take a hot shower before driving to work.

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was created by human - produced chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that came from things like aerosol cans and air - conditioners and refrigerators.

I predict that you will still support your heroism in saving the planet after the hoax goes mainstream, just like you did in the ozone hole scare.

Today, the ozone hole — actually a region of thinned ozone, not actually a pure hole — doesn't make headlines like it used to.

Geir Braathen, senior scientific officer with the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, concurs that «scientists have not agreed on any threshold ozone loss, like 250 or 260 Dobson units [for a hole].»

``... 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.