Just wondering about the ozone.?

Question

Hi i understand that there is a lot of pollution. I was wondering how much pullution gets put in the ozone every day? And also if o lived in the ozone where all the pollution and **** is how long would it take till i died of cancer or sumthin?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I really wouldn't worry about it as long as you didn't stand in the sun too long under higher levels of UV rays.

Answer 3

I think you may be confusing your terms here...

The Ozone Layer is a part of the stratosphere (high above nearly all clouds, and higher than most planes can fly) where there is a larger concentration of Ozone (a chemical with 3 Oxygen atoms). In this layer, many of the sun's harmful UV rays are absorbed by the ozone there, preventing those rays/radiation from hitting the ground. This is a good thing, too...if the ozone didn't absorb that radiation, we would all have horrendous sunburns here on the ground, and be a lot hotter.

There has been in recent years a large 'hole' in this ozone layer over Antarctica and southern South America during the southern hemisphere fall and winter...meaning that in the stratosphere over these areas, there has been much less ozone, and more solar radiation hitting the ground there. This is due to pollution, especially CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons) found in a lot of refrigerants (inside of your refrigerator and air conditioners). Since the 1970s they've been producing a lot less CFCs, so the ozone hole problem hasn't been getting any worse, but it's still there significantly most years.

So ozone helps us a lot high in the atmosphere by absorbing all of those harmful UV rays...but it isn't good down at the surface. We can talk about tropospheric ozone, which is starting to occur more at the surface, where we are, and where the clouds are and where airplanes fly. Normally there isn't much ozone down here at all...but lately with all of the pollution, more and more ozone is starting to form here. Especially over urban areas that get more pollution, there can be smog overhead that is partially a result of ozone being down here where it isn't supposed to be. This ozone also causes problems for people with asthma, since when there's more ozone in the air we breathe, there's less oxygen so it's harder to get all of the oxygen we need.

I hope that helps clear up the two different types of ozone problems that we have...you would burn really quickly if you lived up in the ozone layer, but there's so little air up there that you'd probably suffocate before you'd get skin cancer.