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What are future problems does the hole in the ozone layer create?
Ozone hole is the thinning of ozone layer. Ozone hole can allow UV rays to pass through which can end life on earth.
What will be the harmful effects if the ozone layer is disturbed?
If the ozone is disturbed, life would end on earth.
How is Earth Science related to the end of the world in 2012?
Well Earth science is related to the end of the world because the gases from our automobiles are killing the ozone layer and the ozone layer is protecting us from the sun and if the ozone layer brakes the sun will be so hot on us that we could die.
What damages the ozone layer the most?
Chlorofluorocarbon gases (CFCs) eat the ozone layer alive where we use it everyday for industrial processes although the ozone layer can repair Itself. Another answer: The number one reason ozone thins in our atmosphere is due to a lack of sunlight. Without this energy, ozone naturally will decay into oxygen molecules. This is why the hole in the ozone layer only appears over the poles and then only at the end of the winter months at each pole. Once the sun returns, these holes quickly disappear.
How much of the ozone layer do you have right now?
The "ozone layer" is roughly the same condition it has always been in. The amount of ozone in the upper atmosphere varies mainly due to variations in solar activity. UV radiation has serious affects on this layer. Holes form over the poles at the end of each winter due to a lack of sunlight. When the sun returns, the "holes" quickly disappear.
What is ozone thinning?
This is a thinning (by about 2/3, of the ozone over the Antarctic during the spring time, towards the end of the long winter night in the south pole. There is no actual hole in the layer. This has occurred for centuries, in fact the thinnest we know the layer has ever been is in 1858, before man started using cfc's. A similar thinning occurs, to a much smaller extent in the Arctic during the end of it's winter night also. The thinning is much smaller in the Arctic and NASA even reffers to this thin area as the "Dimple" due to the small size.
How can we save the ozone layer from thinning?
We can make efforts from our end to protect ozone. These efforts include planting trees and protecting from CFC's.
Will the hole in the ozone layer end?
No, you may not be able to rent ozone generators. Beacause scientists have found that generation should be done naturally.
Is carbon dioxide destroying the ozone layer?
Carbon dioxide is not destroying the ozone layer directly but its adverse effects can be seen on the ozone layer indirectly. Carbon dioxide leads to global warming which does not allow the heat to escape out because of which the temperature for the production of ozone is stopped. The rate of production is less than rate of depletion which causes ozone layer to deplete.
How is the ozone layer not related to climate change?
The two issues are related. Ozone is a green house gas. If the ozone layer were to increase, so would temperatures of that area. The ozone layer thins at both poles during the end of their winter months. NASA has stated that one of the reasons that the Antarctic has not seen a warming trend is due to this thinning issue.
How can you retify the ozone layer depletion?
The issue of depletion of the ozone layer is mostly a naturally occurring event and has always occured during the end of the winter months at both poles. Man's involvement in this issue has been largely corrected through the banning of CFC's. As long as we have oxygen in our atmosphere and a sun to convert O2 into O3, we will have an ozone layer. Scientists hope that the ozone layer may have completely recovered by 2060.
What country has the thinnest ozone layer?
The hole in the ozone layer only occurs over the poles during the end of the winter at each pole. The only large thinning area occurs in the Antarctic. This is because of the long winter nights preventing the sun from making more ozone. Once the polar night ends, the hole repairs itself. The Arctic hole is referred to as the dimple by NASA because of the small thinning that occurs over that pole.
