What harm is caused by the loss of the ozone layer?

Answer 1

This answer is the same as for a half dozen more ways to ask this exact question.

1. Increased UV-B arrives at Earth's surface, bringing increased amounts of cancer, mutation, decrease in crop yields, and loss of arable land.
2. Increased swings in day-night temperatures, since ozone is a greenhouse gas.

The ozone layer is not "lost". The ozone layer is self-healing. Ozone is made continually by the Sun. Contaminants simply depress the average concentration of ozone along a vertical path between Earth's surface and the Sun. The ozone hole itself is a natural repeating occurrence.

Answer 2

Ozone depletion is the process where ozone holes are created in the ozone layer. It is caused due to the action of chloro-floro-carbons on the ozone molecule to break it down to oxygen.

Answer 3

There are losses caused by ozone layer. These losses are to humans and to animals.

Answer 4

We are losing the ozone layer due to the use of CFC's. They react with ozone to deplete it.

Answer 5

The loss of ozone layer is ozone depletion. It is caused by natural and man made processes.

Answer 6

If we lose the ozone layer, the UV rays will neter the earth. There will be no more life as the UV rays will destroy it all.