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One of those helium balloons at the county fair? No. A special balloon can reach the ozone layer. It must be almost empty, yet light enough to rise. As it rises, the gas inside expands, so you calculate just how much hydrogen to put in there so it doesn't burst.
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Does the hole in the ozone layer let heat out?
Yes, it can. The absence of ozone causes all the rays to pass through.
How does destroying the ozone layer harm humans?
Only when it depletes, and lets too much UV-B radiation through. The ozone layer (stratospheric ozone) is highly beneficial to life on Earth with no harmful effects. Ozone itself, though, is toxic to humans and is formed in car exhaust, faulty electrical equipment and lightning. Stratospheric ozone is sometimes downwashed into the troposphere as the jet stream passes over mountains giving higher than expected ground level readings in areas where there is no urban / industrial impact.
Why would a decrease in the density of the ozone layer cause public health problem?
The ozone layer protects us against deadly radiation from the sun (like Ultra Violet and Infrared). A little of this radiation isn't that dangerous (sunbathing). But when you get too much, you can get cancer (to much sunbathing can cause cancer too). A reduced density in the ozone layer could let through too much dangerous radiation, and thus forming a problem to the public health.
How do greenhouse gases deplete the ozone layer?
There are two fairly weak direct effects on the ozone layer of combustion, but more combustion byproducts:Reduces available oxygen, from which to make ozone. This effect would take a long time to reach the ozone layer.Soot particles that might make it to the ozone layer (by some stretch) and these will directly consume some ozone (making CO2).Associated with most power production (including coal) are large cooling towers. These dump waste heat to the atmosphere, as water vapor. Both heat and water vapor also decrease ozone concentrations... but these also are released below the cloud layer, so effects will yet still be minimal.A vehicle that runs on petroleum produces these effects. A vehicle that runs on renewable fuels produces these effects, but the plants are in place to absorb the CO2 again. But all non-electric vehicles release water vapor into the atmosphere... even fuel cells. And during charging of wet-cell batteries, even they release hydrogen (which largely oxidizes to water vapor).Let's break this into two questions:How does air pollution affect trophospheric ozone, or ozone in the air we breathe?Air pollution is inclusive of ozone. Ozone is made by NOx (a byproduct of combustion), VOCs (unburned fuel and compounds from natural sources too), and violet to ultraviolet light from the Sun. So air pollution and sunlight makes more / different air pollution.How does air pollution affect the ozone layer?There is no clear direct link between air pollution and depletion of the ozone layer. However, combustion processes decrease oxygen and increase water vapor. Both of these serve to decrease ozone concentrations in the upper atmosphere. It just takes months for some of these "pollutants" (or decreased oxygen levels) to propagate to the upper atmosphere. Probably more damaging is the loss of plants...Bus exhaust consumes oxygen, which eventually will not be available to make ozone. Bus exhaust releases water vapor, which can in part reach the tropopause a increase the rate at which ozone decays.However, bus exhaust will have a smaller net effect on the "ozone layer" than each passenger driving his or her own car.Ozone is formed from oxygen. Cars decrease oxygen, so reduce the amount of oxygen that is available to eventually migrate up to the tropopause.Ozone is catalyzed to decay by the presence of water vapor. Cars produce water as a waste product, so increase the humidity that is available to eventually migrate up to the tropopause.Cars produce NOx and VOCs, which produce ozone at low altitiude, where it does nothing to protect us, yet further reduces the amount of oxygen available AND migrate up to help make ozone at altitude too. (so a little plus and minus.)Note that aircraft do all this much closer to the tropopause.All of this is also true (except for the NOx part) of the little 80 watt light bulbs that are called people. And cows. And decay on forest floors, waste heaps, and sewage treatment plants.Which is not to say "ozone holes" do not form naturally. Which is not to say that if ozone is destroyed in the tropopause, it will not form at any altitude that 215nm UV reaches. Only that all processes are interconnected.Pollutants can cause Ozone Layer depletion, and large gaps to form in the ozone above a certain specific area.We have identified some compounds in the "ozone hole", and they were primarily (at one time) refrigerants.bBurning fossil fuels produces CO2 it is the CO2 that is destroying to ozone layer.The fuel makes air pollution witch makes the ozone layer thinWater vapor in air pollution blocks one path of ozone formation (involving N2O*), and accelerates the natural decay of ozone (via formation of H2O2).To the extent that air pollution increases temperatures, increasing temperature increases the rate of ozone decay (ozone absorbs IR, so surface temps couple to the "ozone layer" too).If air pollution includes compounds that are not fully oxidized, and they make it as high as the "Ozone layer", ozone will be consumed in oxidizing them.If air pollution is produced by lowering oxygen concentration, then less ozone is made by the Sun, since ozone is made from oxygen.exhausts give of cfc's ( chlora flora carbons ) which harms the ozone. other dangers gases are given off to such as carbon monoxideAir pollution has thinned the protective ozone layer above the Earthbecause it damage our O-ZONE LAYERPollution is bad. Burning of some fossil fuels can be bad. They have virtually zero influence on the ozone layer. The cycles of our sun carry a heavier effect on the layer. Perhaps the supervisor could explain how CO2 causes issues with the ozone layer prior to deleting the comments they disagree with.Yes pollution affects the ozone layer
Why does the ozone layer protect the earth?
Ozone absorbs UV-B. UV-B would otherwise damage the DNA of all DNA-based life on / near Earth's surface. ozone is the chemical in our atmoshere that traps heat from the sun. It acts as a greenhouse, sunlight can come in but it can't go out. Ozone protects Earth by keeping it warm. Ozone is a protectant in the upper atmospere but if found in the lower atmoshere where we live, it is poisonous. Global Warming is caused by having to much ozone in the atmoshere. So in some ways ozone protects Earth by keeping it warm, but it could be a danger to Earth by keeping it too warm.
We all know that Ozone layer has a hole is it possible to make an artificial Ozone layer above it so we are well protected?
No, we cannot make an ozone layer above it, below it, and we can't fill it in. We just have to stop dumping things into the atmosphere.There is too much energy above the ozone layer to let ozone survive.There is too much water vapor below the ozone layer to let ozone survive.We'd burn up all our fossil fuels trying to get ozone "up there", which would destroy more ozone than we ever made.
Does the hole in the ozone layer let heat out?
Yes, it can. The absence of ozone causes all the rays to pass through.
Can you give some short poems on ozone layer?
Ozone layer up high, Protecting Earth from the sky, Let's all work to keep it strong, For a healthy planet we all long. Ozone shield so thin, Guarding Earth from harmful din, Let's reduce pollution's toll, To keep our ozone whole. Ozone layer, silent shield, From harmful rays it does wield, Let's all commit to protect, For a future we won't regret.
How is the greenhouse effect the cause of the ozone layer depletion?
The greenhouse effect causes ozone depletion. Greenhouse doesn't let the heat escape, causing problems for ozone.
Why might damage to the ozone layer in the earth's atmosphere be dangerous?
the holes will let an abnormally large amount of the UV rays from the sun that the ozone layer may keep out and if this becomes a big problem the earth will heat up and life could possibly cease to exist
Why you have the ozone layer?
because it protects us from the uv rays and it absorbs the solar energy to let the temperature at night good and not so cold
How does destroying the ozone layer harm humans?
Only when it depletes, and lets too much UV-B radiation through. The ozone layer (stratospheric ozone) is highly beneficial to life on Earth with no harmful effects. Ozone itself, though, is toxic to humans and is formed in car exhaust, faulty electrical equipment and lightning. Stratospheric ozone is sometimes downwashed into the troposphere as the jet stream passes over mountains giving higher than expected ground level readings in areas where there is no urban / industrial impact.
Are people finding ways to build up the ozone layer?
# Yes but none haven't been proved yet. If you simple stop using aerosol spray bottles then the ozone layer will stop thinning. Therefore the world will not let the suns ultra violent rays in and we might not burn up and die.
What percentage of UV does the ozone let through?
The ozone lets the UV-C to let through. The other UV patterns are absorbed by the ozone.
Why would a decrease in the density of the ozone layer cause public health problem?
The ozone layer protects us against deadly radiation from the sun (like Ultra Violet and Infrared). A little of this radiation isn't that dangerous (sunbathing). But when you get too much, you can get cancer (to much sunbathing can cause cancer too). A reduced density in the ozone layer could let through too much dangerous radiation, and thus forming a problem to the public health.
If you let the air out of a balloon what will happen to the balloon?
it will deflate :(
Why is ozone depletion continuing?
# All the contaminants in the atmosphere have neither all left, nor all made it to the ozone layer yet. # New contaminants are being added, both by Nature and by Man # Old behaviors are still practiced and encouraged, even though we know they damage the ozone layer. Let's see what another two decades and 50% less fossil fuel expended in aircraft flight do to depletion...
