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I have heard for years industrial plants, car emmisions, hair spray, freon and oh so many others. What about all the airplanes that go up each day all over the world..jet airliners all over the world, the space shuttles, the misssles that take up satalight dishes for cell phones ,T.V. Goverment satalites all over the world. Look at all the fuel that they burn going up and how much closer are they to the ozone? What are your thoughts?

2007-03-18 14:09:36 · 3 answers · asked by sisapeeka 2 in Environment

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Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related observations: a slow, steady decline of about 3 percent per decade in the total amount of ozone in Earth's stratosphere since around 1980; and a much larger, but seasonal, decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions during the same period. The latter phenomenon is commonly referred to as the ozone hole.

The detailed mechanism by which the polar ozone holes form is different from that for the mid-latitude thinning, but the most important process in both trends is catalytic destruction of ozone by atomic chlorine and bromine. The main source of these halogen atoms in the stratosphere is photodissociation of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) compounds, commonly called freons, and of bromofluorocarbon compounds known as halons. These compounds are transported into the stratosphere after being emitted at the surface. Both ozone depletion mechanisms strengthened as emissions of CFCs and halons increased.

CFCs, halons and other contributory substances are commonly referred to as ozone-depleting substances (ODS). Since the ozone layer prevents most harmful UVB wavelengths (270–315 nm) of ultraviolet light (UV light) from passing through the Earth's atmosphere, observed and projected decreases in ozone have generated worldwide concern leading to adoption of the Montreal Protocol banning the production of CFCs and halons as well as related ozone depleting chemicals such as carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane (also known as methyl chloroform). It is suspected that a variety of biological consequences such as increases in skin cancer, damage to plants, and reduction of plankton populations in the ocean's photic zone may result from the increased UV exposure due to ozone depletion.

2007-03-18 14:12:14 · answer #1 · answered by blapath 6 · 0 1

Some people say that holes in the ozone layer(also known as Global Warming) are caused from people spraying perfumes, hair sprays, and even when cows fart. I'm not so sure about when people have gas though, but I know cows are causing alot of those holes to be created. The pollution goes through the air and somehow cause holes to occure in the ozone layer. What is so bad about this is that all of the holes are letting in more sun rays in. All of these hot sun rays are causing ice burgs to melt and flood into the ocean, and eventually the ocean will overflow, which would make some of the cities along a coast flood, but only some, depending on where they are located. But this will happen in a long while.
Maybe you should go rent the movie called "An Inconvient Truth" by Al Gore. I do not agree with a lot of it, I am certainly not a fan of him, but it is all about Global Warming. Also, if you like more not-so-true-but-totally-interesting-and-exciting-and-entertaining movies, then you might want to rent "A Day After Tomorrow" I am not sure who is by though.
Hope this helps!

2007-03-18 14:20:35 · answer #2 · answered by maddie_bales_13 2 · 0 0

OK, here goes. Ozone molecules get cold and heavy from frozen condensation build up and fall to earth. They stay down there until something defrosts them and they rise back up, but not until they thaw.
OK?.................Ok.

2007-03-18 15:16:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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