Sentences with phrase «stratosphere protects earth»

Ozone in the stratosphere protects earth from radiation (otherwise we would all be fried double quick) but in the troposphere it becomes a GHG, adding to the woes created by carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

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On Earth, temperature inversion occurs because ozone in the stratosphere absorbs much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, preventing it from reaching the surface, protecting the biosphere, and therefore warming the stratosphere instead.
On Earth, ozone absorbs UV in the stratosphere, protecting our world from a lot of the Sun's harmful radiation.
Could injecting one of the Earth's crust's most abundant compounds into the stratosphere protect against the impacts of global warming?
In the stratosphere, we find the «good» ozone that protects life on Earth from the harmful effects of the Sun's ultraviolet rays.
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