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Why don't spaceships and nuclear bombs and aeroplanes etc cause damage to the ozone layer yet CFCs do?
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∙ 14y ago
First, all aeroplanes do leave a carbon foot print. Second, a nuclear bomb would do horrific damage to the ozone layer ( that's why nuclear testing is banned). Lastly, since no one proved that alien exist their spaceships are not real, but if they are I would imagine that they would do damage to the ozone layer.
It should be pointed out that a carbon foot print has nothing at all to do with the thinning caused by a lack of sunlight to a layer of our atmosphere. CO2 may be a greenhouse gas, but has nothing to do with the ozone layer.
Nuclear bombs could do damage to this layer, but that is not why they are banned. They do damage in many other ways.
Rockets to space dump water vapor, and some of them dump chlorine containing molecules. These all tend to decrease ozone levels
Aircraft dump water vapor, and decrease oxygen levels. These all tend to decrease ozone levels. This is a much stronger effect than for rockets, since many more tons of fuel are involved annually.
Nuclear bombs loft large quantites of contaminants to the upper atmosphere, but very few of them are not fully oxidized. Some water vapor is lofted ahead of the mushroom cloud, and this will do some damage. Thankfully these do not occur often.
CFCs are extremely stable, and the only place they can go away, is where sunlight is strong enough to break them down. Unfortunately, this is where the sunlight is strong enough to make ozone... the ozone layer. So where we have dumped CFCs to the atmosphere since the early 1900s, it will take a while for them to leave the system. And Nature is continually adding Her bit to this loading as well... plants do also make / release chloromethane, especially when burned.
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