does the use of fossil fuels damage the ozone layer?

Question

does it?
what does it contain that damage the ozone layer?
does it contain CFC?


please explain and give sources




thanks!

i'm getting confused!

i'm mixing global warming and ozone depletion!

is there even a difference?or none?

Answer 1

Burning fossil fuels releases Carbon dioxide into the atmosphere trapping some of the energy that reaches Earth from the sun, preventing it from escaping back into space; thus, like an invisible blanket, it warms the planet. Since the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have risen by more than a third, from around 280 parts per million to above 380, and the rise is accelerating. Emissions from transport are growing particularly fast.

The ozone layer averages about 3 millimeters (1/8 inch) thick, approximately the same as two pennies stacked one on top of the other. The hole has averaged between 23.5 and 27.5 million square kilometers over the last three years which is relatively stable.

There are a number of gases that either directly cause the damage or change a gas into something that does. Chlorine and bromine, Methane, released by cattle, fuels and paddy fields; nitrous oxides, mainly from fertilizers; and a few manufactured chemicals, particularly aerosols directly effect the ozone layer .

Although human production of substances that damage the ozone layer has dropped, the gases are still at peak levels in the stratosphere and whilst human activity isn't making the hole any worse at the present time, with increased use of hydrocarbons this will not be true for long unless a lot more is done.

Answer 2

You are mixing up two different effects.
1) Before green plants existed there was about 37% Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. they use it along with sunlight to make new growth. As they died and animals which lived on them died they formed layer which we see as coal or oil. Burning those layer will return the Carbon dioxide which was used in their formation to the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide traps heat from the sun better than the atmosphere without it so it gets warmer. Unfortunately flying aircraft at high altitudes has the worst effect.
2) Chlorofluorocarbons are man made and were originally used as fire extinguishers - which they happen to be good as - they are gases at room temperature but produce quite low pressures. They are - or at least were - very good as propellants in such things as spray can and hair spray until it was found - as they are comparatively inert - they accumulate in the atmosphere where they then do react with the ozone and deplete it. So their use was stopped in spray cans.
Most spray cans now contain hydrocarbon propellants which burn if they come near a flame. It is a BIG NO NO idea to smoke at the same time as spraying your hair.
But then nobody smokes nowadays do they!!!??
RoyS

Answer 3

no longer fairly! Fossil fuels have no result on the ozone layer- they reason the greenhouse result, which isn't the same. CFCs led to ozone depletion, and that they've been banned. Their replacements are additionally due ot be banned. by using this, the ozone situation is one in all the few environmental problems it somewhat is desperate to heal itself. via the top of this century, it somewhat is going to be long gone. The Earth will certainly be ineffective before the crimson great diploma (the solar heats up over the years and this might wipe existence out long before the crimson great), yet ozone depletion is only no longer the reason.

Answer 4

As far as I know - not
CFC's are man made chloro fluoro carbons that don't occur in nature. Sunlight breaks them down at high altitude which produces products that damage the ozone layer.