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Ozone in sentence

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We cause climate breakdown, we acidify the oceans, a hole in the ozone layer, pushing ourselves beyond the planetary boundaries of the life-supporting systems that have for the last 11,000 years made earth such a benevolent home to humanity.
You know, we can make ozone from car tailpipes.
If you brought the entire ozone layer down to the surface of the Earth, it would be the thickness of two pennies, at 14 pounds per square inch.
We need to learn how to repair and replenish the Earth's ozone layer.
The big deal was he happened to have won the Nobel prize for ozone chemistry.
And so people took him seriously when he said we should think about this, even though there will be some ozone impacts.
The other problem is they're right in the ozone layer, and I'd prefer them above the ozone layer.
We can move things out of the stratosphere into the mesosphere, in principle solving the ozone problem.
We want to see that, see if there's water, oxygen, ozone, the things that might tell us that it could harbor life.
The ozone hole changed the climate.
This is the impact of the ozone hole on sea level pressure, so low pressure, high pressures, around the southern oceans, around Antarctica.
I could go through a dozen more examples: the skill associated with solar cycles, changing the ozone in the stratosphere; the skill associated with orbital changes over 6,000 years.
There's a great phrase that Sherwood Rowland, who won the Nobel Prize for the chemistry that led to ozone depletion, when he was accepting his Nobel Prize, he asked this question: "What is the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?"
And when we got home, we were told by NASA that a hole in the ozone had been discovered above the South Pole, and we'd walked underneath it the same year it had been discovered.
They also exist for other reasons, but just life even produces ozone.
When the Montreal Protocol called for the phasing out of CFCs, the chlorofluorocarbons implicated in the hole in the ozone layer, the risks were immense.
Space doesn't naturally have what we need to survive when we travel there: no air, it's too hot or too cold, no ozone to protect us from those nasty UV rays, either.
We did a great job with the Montreal Protocol to limit the production of chlorofluorocarbons, CFCs, because of their effect on the ozone layer.
I always think that first you have to feel it, and then you can measure it; you need to hear the sounds of the atmosphere, of the climate, of the hot air, in order to then measure the ozone, the carbon dioxide.
It was actually about the Montreal Protocol and stratospheric ozone depletion.
And see, it turns out these CFCs were a problem because they were destroying the ozone layer.
Now I'm sure most of you have heard of the ozone layer, but why does it matter?
Well, quite simply, the ozone layer is earth's sunscreen, and it's really fragile.
If you could take all of the ozone, which is mostly about 10 to 20 miles up above our heads, and compress it down to the surface of the earth, it would form a thin shell only about two pennies thick, about an eighth of an inch.
It's not an exaggeration to say that a threat to the ozone layer is a threat to human safety.
So it wasn't actually until over 40 years later, in the 1970s, when scientists realized that CFCs would break down high in the atmosphere and damage the ozone layer.
In 1985, scientists discovered the Antarctic ozone hole, and this was a truly alarming discovery.
Before the Antarctic ozone hole, scientists expected maybe a five or 10 percent reduction in ozone over a century.
But what they found over the course of less than a decade was that more than a third of the ozone had simply vanished, over an area larger than the size of the US.
And although we now know that CFCs are the root cause of this ozone hole, at the time, the science was far from settled.
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