Sentences with phrase «ozone layer become»

As the absorbing layer of greenhouse gases becomes thicker the stratosphere and ozone layer become isolated among, well, the nothingness of space, where everything is very, very cold.

And the hole in the ozone layer became the poster - child for mankind's impact on the planet.

Not exact matches

If religion in today's world still supplies (in Peter Berger's words) the «sacred canopy» for our ordinary lives, it has surely become as precarious a canopy as the thinning ozone layer.

By the late 1980s it became clear that global atmospheric pollution causing both the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer had become critical threats to life on earth (Henderson - Sellers & Blong 1989).

Their model also suggests that had ozone - depleting substances continued to increase, the ozone layer would have become significantly thinner over other parts of the globe.

Ueno says that once aerosols are in the stratosphere they become very stable and can last for years, compared with days or weeks in the troposphere, and they can activate compounds such as chlorine that destroy the ozone layer.

So when we do things that emit GHGs, we also likely emit local pollution that kills, & becomes regional acid rain (destroying lakes, crops & forests), & acidifies the ocean, depletes the ozone layer (some pollutants), and maybe a hundre other harms, in addition to contributing to GW, and to runaway GW.

The minor industrial gases known as CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) could become a grave threat to the ozone layer.

Their model also suggests that had ozone - depleting substances continued to increase, the ozone layer would have become significantly thinner over other parts of the globe.

-- If the United States becomes a party or otherwise adheres to a multilateral agreement, including any amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which restricts the production or consumption of class II, group II substances --

-- If the United States becomes a party or otherwise adheres to a multilateral agreement, including any amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which restricts the production or consumption of class II, group II substances, the Administrator may utilize funds to meet any related contribution obligation of the United States to the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol or similar multilateral fund established under such multilateral agreement.

The stratospheric ozone layer has become substantially depleted throughout much of the globe since the 1980s because of enhanced human production and use of ozone - depleting chemicals, such as chlorofluorocarbons, halons, and others, during the 20th century.

These activities can guarantee that the efforts heal the ozone layer stay on course and do not become sidetracked by unknown and unforeseen events or occurrences.

The accumulation of chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone - depleting gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activities have altered this balance so that the ozone layer has become depleted.

As HCFCs were phased out under the Montreal Protocol in order to protect the ozone layer, HFCs became the primary substitute chosen by U.S. industry for HCFCs.