How does ozone depletion differ from climate change?

Question

How does ozone depletion differ from climate change?

Answer 1

ozone depletion leads to additional, harmful UV rays entering the atmospere.  This does not necessarily means climate change.  The change in climate comes from an abundance of other gases, namely carbon dioxide, that prevent enough heat to leave the atmosphere, causing it to radiate back in and warm earth.

Answer 2

Ozone depletion allows more harmful UV. UV is a fast moving wavelength that is causing excitation of solar exposed, absorbent, building exteriors and development. The excitation is causing heat generation the building isn't designed or insulated for.

We treat the heat symptoms indoors with air conditioning which is really refrigeration. Refrigerants are associated with ozone depletion. Canada and the United Nations agreed to accelerate the elimination of refrigerants and here is a link to their press release. http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&...

At the same time that Canada is releasing the press on reducing refrigerant use, Thermografix Consulting Corporation has challenges into the Canadian Environment Minister showing that Canada is using ozone depleting refrigerants in almost 100% of buildings to treat the heat symptom caused by UV and solar radiation. Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h... and see what the world has been missing.

Answer 3

While there is some relationship between the ozone layer and global warming, these are really two separate problems. The mass media and pop culture often confuses these two issues.

Global warming is related to increasing amounts of greenhouse gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, etc.), and holes in the ozone layer are caused primarily by CFC’s (chlorofluorocarbons).

“Holes” in the ozone are areas where the ozone layer has thinned, or has partially been depleted. CFCs are mainly released at northern latitudes--mostly from Europe, Russia, Japan, and North America. Once in the atmosphere, CFC’s reacts with sunlight and ozone molecules in such a way that the ozone breaks down. Ozone concentrations around the world have decreased, but the thinning has been most dramatic in the sky above the South Pole. A combination of specific weather conditions and CFC chemistry created this hole above Antarctica.

The Montreal Protocol is a wonderful example of an international treaty designed to protect the environment. It went into effect on January 1, 1989. Due to its widespread adoption and implementation, the concentrations of the most significant ozone-depleting molecules have leveled off, or begun to decrease.

The concept of ozone layer depletion was politically controversial in the 1990s but has broadly been accepted by the scientific community. Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina, and F. Sherwood Rowland were awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the chemical mechanism that links CFCs to ozone depletion. The Montreal Protocol was negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations and is widely seen as a model for the Kyoto Protocol. The scientific basis of ozone depletion has been disputed by some global warming deniers and their related institutions, including Patrick Michaels, Steven (JunkScience.com) Milloy, and Fred Singer (this is one more reason why these guys should not be taken seriously).

Answer 4

they're not related.

well, not in the sense that we typically use them.

around here, "climate change" generally refers to global warming, and the effects thereof.

one could use "climate change" to refer to the increased level of ultraviolet rays that result from ozone depletion.

however, i prefer not to.

what that would do is allow the global warming deniers to confuse global warming with ozone, which wouldn't help anyone.

Answer 5

Some of the chemicals that reduce ozone in the atmosphere also cause climate change. We have the technology to go get this stuff. Check out CoolingEarth.org