Sentences with phrase «work on the ozone»

Schoenbein's work on ozone was considered a classic at the time.

This prize was given for work on the ozone hole.

Erik said one of the people attacking me had done the same to Sherwood Rowland, ** a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for his work on ozone depletion.

Regarding the so - called «Singer attack of Sherwood Rowland», I addressed that with verbatim text in my January 16, 2015 blog post, in which I dissected Oreskes» assertion that Erik Conway «said one of the people attacking me had done the same to Sherwood Rowland, a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for his work on ozone depletion.»

Once considered fringe science, geoengineering gained respectability with an essay two years ago by chemist Paul J. Crutzen, who is something of an environmentalist hero — it was his Nobel Prize — winning work on the ozone hole that led to the ban on Freon and other ozone - destroying chemicals.

Paul Crutzen, the Dutch atmospheric chemist who won a Nobel for his work on ozone depletion, coined the term «Anthropocene» ten years ago.

Not exact matches

During an appearance Friday evening on former governor David Paterson's WOR radio show, Governor Andrew Cuomo said talks with gambling giant Genting to build a casino and convention center at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park «haven't really worked out,» and that he's shopping around for another developer.

Brock LeBaron, deputy director of Utah's Division of Air Quality, which has funded some of the work in the basin and been focusing on reducing ozone pollution there, said that upcoming efforts to improve air quality should also result in reduced methane emissions in the near future.

During his final year, Bourtourault did a short research project on the detection of ozone, a second one on the storage of nuclear waste, and a 4 - month internship at the state - owned Aérospatiale company, where he worked on nonpolluting anticorrosion treatments.

Robert Watson, an atmospheric chemist at the University of East Anglia in the United Kindgdom, is being honored for his studies of the ozone hole and work toward an international agreement to ban the use of the chemicals causing ozone depletion; he later chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Work then will also focus on studying to what extent chlorine - activated and ozone - depleted air masses will make its way into the densely populated middle latitudes.

«Our work confirms that reducing emissions of ozone precursors would have an enormous effect on the air we all breathe,» Pfister said.

The U.S. and European researchers, who work for government and industry, were part of a group that advises policymakers on the Montreal Protocol, the 1987 pact that curbed the use of chemicals that harm the ozone layer.

NASA, through its Aura mission to study the Earth's ozone layer and climate, is working with LittleBits to develop activities around a new $ 189 space kit, announced on Thursday.

This work is the proposed document of that exchange, focusing on one of the imagined beasts known as Panotti whose large ears afford it extraordinary sensitivity and other evolutionary specifics that allow them to survive in the age of No Ozone.

Focusing on the natural world, the Brazilian artist creates works that visualize changes that occur with the passage of time, like erosion, rising sea levels, and the depletion of the ozone layer.

Much work is being done on improving the realism of such effects — particularly through ozone chemistry (which enhances the signal), and aerosol pathways (which don't appear to have much of a global effect i.e. Dunne et al. (2016)-RRB-.

Bhartia claims that the two groups (Farmans and his) were working independently without knowledge of each other, as if, had Farman not published, he, Bhartia, would have been able to present his paper on what would have been his discovery of the ozone hole in Prague.

Further field work by NASA during the 1987 Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment (AAOE) ended up providing definitive evidence in favor of the chlorine hypothesis, with details of the heterogeneous chemistry on polar stratospheric clouds as hypothesized by Susan Solomon and colleagues in 1986.

The images were produced by researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who work in concert with others at the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center to process data from ozone - monitoring instruments on the EOS - Aura satellite.

Subsequent work indicated that the polar ozone hole (starting in the early 80s) was having an effect on polar winds and temperature patterns (Thompson and Solomon, 2002; Shindell and Schmidt, 2004), showing clearly that regional climate changes can sometimes be decoupled from the global picture.

His closing slide cited the late Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel laureate in chemistry who faced years of industry criticism of his work on the link between chlorofluorocarbons and depletion of the Earth's protective sheath of ozone:

While participating in a November conference connected with the International Year of Chemistry, I spent time talking with Molina of the University of California, San Diego, a 1995 laureate in chemistry for his work (with others) on the atmospheric impact of ozone - destroying refrigerants and related chemicals.

Here are a few of the problems that need to be worked out: There's the issue of the effect of the aerosols on stratospheric chemistry (think how unanticipated the chemistry of the Ozone Hole was), and the question of just where the aerosols would go once injected.

He was working on the history of atmospheric sciences, I was working on the history of oceanography, and we had both noticed that some of the people who were challenging the scientific evidence of global warming had previously questioned the evidence of stratospheric ozone depletion and the harms of tobacco.

fortunately science works on evidence, rather than common sense, and shows that the ozone layer does indeed protect us from harmful UV rays.

In The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity (NBER Working Paper No. 17004), authors Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell instead ask whether reductions in ambient ozone concentrations can add to human capital and therefore enhance productivity.

This collection of Fact Sheets focuses on the work undertaken by UNIDO, in its capacity as Implementing Agency of the Montreal Protocol, to phase - out ozone depleting substances which also are high global warming potential gases, by introducing alternatives with zero ozone - depleting potential and low global warming potential.

UNEP News Center: The 197 Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer discussed various issues regarding the protection of the earth's fragile ozone layer, during the 34th Meeting of the Open - Ended Working Group of the Parties, conducted from 14 to 18 July in Paris, FrOzone Layer discussed various issues regarding the protection of the earth's fragile ozone layer, during the 34th Meeting of the Open - Ended Working Group of the Parties, conducted from 14 to 18 July in Paris, Frozone layer, during the 34th Meeting of the Open - Ended Working Group of the Parties, conducted from 14 to 18 July in Paris, France.

This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,» «We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy,» Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC working group on Mitigation of Climate Change 2008 to 2015.

That mean a policy enacted 22 years ago called the Montreal Protocol is working: The 1989 ban on the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)-- toxic chemicals used in air conditioners and solvents that eat away at ozone molecules — has helped the Earth to regain some of its lost protective ozone.

A number of leading scientists, for instance, Paul Crutzen, who had won a Nobel Prize for his work on atmospheric ozone chemistry, told Jim that he had put together just the sort of comprehensive and convincing presentation that was needed.

Although unprecedented in the Arctic, this phenomenon fit into the scientific understanding of ozone depletion, according to Newman, who worked on the most recent scientific assessment, done in 2010, for the Montreal Protocol.

Speaking on behalf of the World Meteorological Organization, Braather was keen to stress that this year's Arctic ozone loss record was not because the Montreal Protocol isn't working.

«Thanks to the hard work of this talented team of government officials and non-governmental groups being honored by the US EPA's climate and ozone awards, Montreal Protocol Parties were able to reach agreement to speed up the phase - out of HCFCs [hydrochlorofluorocarbons],» said James L. Connaughton, Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Jade has also worked on environment, development and trade issues in a number of other sectors including global textile supply chains, natural resources and conflict, marine governance, the trade in illegal ozone - depleting substances, sustainable tourism in least developed states and climate change.

In 1995, shortly before F. Sherwood Rowland (1927 - March 10, 2012) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for collaborative work two decades earlier on the fundamental chemistry of stratospheric ozone depletion, a House Science subcommittee held a hearing, chaired by Rep.... Continue reading →

We have wrongly defined the problem of climate change, relying on strategies that worked previously with ozone, sulphur emissions and nuclear bombs.

Prior to that, he worked at the Environmental Working Group, which produced an undated Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) report titled «Affiliations of Selected Global Warming Skeptics» («Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action»» s copy here), which says the following near the end of page 2....

The result would be a planet on which humans could work and survive outdoors in the summer only in mountainous regions [115,116]-- and there they would need to contend with the fact that a moist stratosphere would have destroyed the ozone layer [117].

We have discussed this issue time and again in our own work, and Keith Briffa, Malcolm Hughes, and many others have published on this, w / competing possible explanations (stratospheric ozone changes, incidentally, is the least plausible to me of multiple competing, more plausible explanations that have been published).

I am working on another article that has more detail from published article about the increase in ozone pollution from ethanol mixed gasoline.

the wrong cognitive choices in our attempts to define the problem of climate change, by relying on strategies that worked previously with ozone, sulphur emissions and nuclear bombs.

These are incorporated based upon prior work using (1) the surface ozone response to methane emissions changes from two global composition - climate models, (2) the impact of ozone on yields of four staple crops, wheat, maize, soy and rice, based on the methodology of Van Dingenen et al. (2009), and (3) their valuation using world market prices, as described in Shindell et al. (2012a).

Topics that I work on or plan to work in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.

He has served as Project Manager in the European Community AERONOX program, as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council Panel on Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft, as Chairman of ICAO / CAEP / WG3 (emissions) Technology and Certification Subgroup, and as lead author in the World Meteorological Organization's Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion (1994)-RRB- David J. Griggs (Head of the IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit at the Hadley Centre, UK Meteorological Office), David J. Dokken (Project Administrator of the IPCC Working Group II Technical Support Unit, Washington, DC, USA) and Mack McFarland (Principal Scientist in Environmental Programs at DuPont Fluoroproducts, Wilmington, DE, USA).