What would happen if the ozone hole grew too big?

Question

im talking around the size that would make it over large portions of continents.

Answer 1

If the ozone layer widened or grew too big life on earth would be seriously compromised. The ozone layer protects life on earth from deadly radiation and gamma rays coming from the sun. Without the filtering ozone layer radiation and gamma rays would begin to affect the very cells of your body. The cells would be damaged beyond repair and the end result would be cancer (skin cancer first and foremost). Other life such as animals and plant life would not have the time to adapt to the high radiation and gamma rays and would also end up dying.

That's the short of it.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Reductions in ozone levels will lead to higher levels of UVB reaching the Earth's surface. The sun's output of UVB does not change; rather, less ozone means less protection, and hence more UVB reaches the Earth.However, ozone depletion will increase the amount of UVB and the risk of health effects.
Physiological and developmental processes of plants are affected by UVB radiation, even by the amount of UVB in present-day sunlight. Despite mechanisms to reduce or repair these effects and a limited ability to adapt to increased levels of UVB, plant growth can be directly affected by UVB radiation.
Exposure to solar UVB radiation has been shown to affect both orientation mechanisms and motility in phytoplankton, resulting in reduced survival rates for these organisms. Scientists have demonstrated a direct reduction in phytoplankton production due to ozone depletion-related increases in UVBIncreases in solar UV radiation could affect terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemical cycles, thus altering both sources and sinks of greenhouse and chemically-important trace gases e.g., carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), carbonyl sulfide (COS) and possibly other gases, including ozone. These potential changes would contribute to biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks that attenuate or reinforce the atmospheric buildup of these gasesSynthetic polymers, naturally occurring biopolymers, as well as some other materials of commercial interest are adversely affected by solar UV radiation. Today's materials are somewhat protected from UVB by special additives. Therefore, any increase in solar UVB levels will therefore accelerate their breakdown, limiting the length of time for which they are useful outdoors.

Answer 3

Your local weather-caster can't reliably predict your local weather. How can these "experts" predict climate change?

In the 70's we were headed into a new ice-age. The "experts" said it was true, now we have "global warming."

We even have "experts" that say "global warming" will lead to a new ice-age!

Let's just face the facts, you can't predict the weather. Climate change is even stupider!

The Earth will do what it does. We can't change that!

Answer 4

Ultra-violent.

Answer 5

I'm hardly exposed to the sun, so it doesnt matter to me :-p

Answer 6

most likly we would all shrivle up and die, the uv would burn us up and most of all the life on earth.

Answer 7

we would all burn to death because of the sun!!!

Answer 8

it would be HELL