Sentences with phrase «which ozone destruction»
The formation of large areas of high pressure in the lower atmosphere both lowers ozone levels, by squeezing the ozone layer above, and may provide the very cold conditions in which ozone destruction is greatest.
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Recently, additional ozone production mechanisms have been proposed to resolve the ozone deficit problem, which arises from greater ozone destruction than production in several photochemical models of the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere.
The 1987 international agreement phased out the industrial production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs): chlorine - containing chemicals that help trigger the destruction of stratospheric ozone, which screens out cancer - causing ultraviolet light.
NASA's upper atmosphere research satellite, for example, carries the British - made microwave limb sounder (MLS) which measures concentrations of chlorine monoxide — a chemical that plays a critical part in the destruction of ozone.
«Free oxygen [O2] in the atmosphere is required to form a protective layer of ozone [O3], which can shield methane from photochemical destruction,» Reinhard said.
Effectively she appears to at least confirm the possibility of my proposition that what is going on is an entirely natural solar induced process (destruction of ozone in the upper atmosphere by more incoming solar protons) which casts doubt on all previous assumptions concerning human CO2 AND CFCs.
It also plays an important role in the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer which protects us from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun.
The mother of the climate fraud is the ozone fraud which was able to convince us that localized and seasonal formation of regions with less than 200 DU of total ozone were «holes» of some sort and to further convince us that these «ozone holes» were evidence of global ozone depletion caused by the destruction of ozone by man made halogenated hydrocarbons.
(The latter targets the destruction of a wide range of waste refrigerants and air conditioning substances — which not only deplete ozone, but have profound global warming potential impacts, ranging between 100 and 11,000 times the greenhouse gas potency of carbon dioxide.)
The white line marks the area within which the chemical ozone destruction took place.